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| is an open project at Marteau. | is an open project at Marteau. | ||
| - | Should it start growing it should offer encounters with cities – yet with the special perspective of what these cities looked like between 1650 and 1750. | + | Should it start growing it should offer encounters with cities – yet with the special perspective on what these cities looked like between 1650 and 1750. |
| Imagine you could get a historian’s tourist guide to early 18th century London on this site: Where can you lodge, where can you eat, which are the coffee-houses you should visit (and whom would you meet there)? What about the infrastructure of bookshops, brothels, intellectuals to be visited (in case you are one of those learned visitors). Where would sailors prefer to live? | Imagine you could get a historian’s tourist guide to early 18th century London on this site: Where can you lodge, where can you eat, which are the coffee-houses you should visit (and whom would you meet there)? What about the infrastructure of bookshops, brothels, intellectuals to be visited (in case you are one of those learned visitors). Where would sailors prefer to live? | ||
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| One would like to get information about the social structure of the place, the number of residents, household size, composition of typical households, and one would like to get the city’s calendar with its cultural events, its performances of operas and comedies, its public executions and typical festivities. | One would like to get information about the social structure of the place, the number of residents, household size, composition of typical households, and one would like to get the city’s calendar with its cultural events, its performances of operas and comedies, its public executions and typical festivities. | ||
| - | Wikipedia has become a medium of general use. Imagine we could get historians from different fields to feed their special experiences into a special Wikipedia remaining in its period and linking within this period. Imagine what Robert Darnton did for Paris with his [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.1/ah000001.html An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris] – imagine that would be done by more than one hand with more than one perspective in joint ventures with the communication the Wikipedia software allows. | + | Wikipedia has become a medium of general use. Imagine we could get historians from different fields to feed their special knowledge into a special Wikipedia remaining in the past and linking within it. Imagine what Robert Darnton did for Paris with his [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.1/ah000001.html An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris] – imagine that would be done by more than one hand with more than one perspective in joint ventures with the communication the Wikipedia software allows. |
| This is the aim of this project. Contact the editors at [mailto:verlagshaus@pierre-marteau] if you want to join us and if you feel ready to open pages on aspects of early 18th century cities and towns you have investigated into. Get an account and start something colleagues might join. | This is the aim of this project. Contact the editors at [mailto:verlagshaus@pierre-marteau] if you want to join us and if you feel ready to open pages on aspects of early 18th century cities and towns you have investigated into. Get an account and start something colleagues might join. | ||
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is an open project at Marteau.
Should it start growing it should offer encounters with cities – yet with the special perspective on what these cities looked like between 1650 and 1750.
Imagine you could get a historian’s tourist guide to early 18th century London on this site: Where can you lodge, where can you eat, which are the coffee-houses you should visit (and whom would you meet there)? What about the infrastructure of bookshops, brothels, intellectuals to be visited (in case you are one of those learned visitors). Where would sailors prefer to live?
One would like to get information about the social structure of the place, the number of residents, household size, composition of typical households, and one would like to get the city’s calendar with its cultural events, its performances of operas and comedies, its public executions and typical festivities.
Wikipedia has become a medium of general use. Imagine we could get historians from different fields to feed their special knowledge into a special Wikipedia remaining in the past and linking within it. Imagine what Robert Darnton did for Paris with his An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris – imagine that would be done by more than one hand with more than one perspective in joint ventures with the communication the Wikipedia software allows.
This is the aim of this project. Contact the editors at mailto:verlagshaus@pierre-marteau if you want to join us and if you feel ready to open pages on aspects of early 18th century cities and towns you have investigated into. Get an account and start something colleagues might join.
