Digital Genealogy as Second-Wave Digital Humanities: Approaching Nineteenth-Century Grampian with Digital Resources

<p>In the first major engagement with Aberdeenshire’s rural society since Carter’s <i>The Poor Man’s Country</i> of 1979, Riddell’s study of Northeast Scotland encourages readers to consider the vast potential held by Digital Genealogy for second-wave Digital Humanities.</p><p>Often overlooked in contemporary historical scholarship, this study carves out a place for Digital Genealogy in academia. Riddell constructs a new lens to examine rural society in the nineteenth century, through which he extends and challenges Carter’s analysis. In recovering a breadth of people and their social networks through prosopographical data, the book reveals the agency of individuals who left minimal records. Riddell not only puts forward a fresh perspective on the social structures of Scotland’s north-eastern society but informs a discussion on the nature of Britishness both within concepts of a developed western civilisation and beyond them.</p><p>This book will interest a broad readership; Scottish history enthusiasts, pursuers of Digital Genealogy and, scholars and students of the Digital Humanities will all find value in this study.</p>

ISBN-13: 9780367560393