Virtual history : how videogames portray the past / Martin A. Wainwright.
نوع المادة : نصاللغة: الإنجليزية الناشر:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019وصف:xiii, 219 pages : illustrations; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781138069091 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- GV1469.34.S52 W35 2019
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | GV1469.34.S52 W35 2019 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000112455 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات Temporary Shelves | الرفوف المؤقتة | GV1469.34.S52 W35 2019 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000112454 |
Includes index.
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.