Virtual history how videogames portray the past / A. Martin Wainwright.
| Author/creator | Wainwright, A. Martin |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Londonn ; New York : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Historians, consumers, and the videogame industry -- The meaning and presentation of history -- Portraying historical research -- Designer preference vs. marketability -- Designer intent and consumer reception -- Theme and mechanics -- Mechanics -- Compression and focus -- The problem of hindsight bias -- Contingency and determinism -- The scholarship of counterfactual history -- Contingency and technology in civilization -- Great individuals and events -- Wars and battles: Hastings and Gettysburg -- Economics and resource-management -- Economic history -- Resource management -- Trade -- Mercantilism in games portraying the early modern era -- Laissez-faire and planned economies -- Ecology and the environment -- Environmental history and the Columbian Exchange -- Applying the Columbian Exchange in the virtual world -- Disease -- Climate change and geological events -- Culture and ethnicity -- The cultural turn in history -- Characterizing cultures in action videogames -- Characterizing cultures in strategy games -- Religion -- Gender -- Gender in the study of history -- Sexism and the female market for historical videogames -- Female characters in the virtual past -- Male characters in the virtual past -- Portraying non-heteronormative gender roles -- Violence and oppression -- Historical scholarship on violence and oppression -- Combat and the treatment of civilians -- Slavery and genocide -- The future of the virtual past. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record; title from PDF title page, viewed (05/29/2020). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Wainwright, A. Martin, author. Virtual history Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781138069084 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019009466 |
| ISBN | 9781315157351 (Ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |