Historia Ludens: The Playing Historian

✍ Scribed by Alexander von Lünen, Katherine J. Lewis, Benjamin Litherland and Pat Cullum

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Series: Routledge Approaches to History
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Table
Preface
Part 1 History of Gaming
1 A Quantitative Study of Historical Video Games (1981–2015)
2 ‘The British Empire Would Gain New Strength from Nursery Floors’: Depictions of Travel and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Board Games
Part 2 Gaming in History Education
3 Designing and Using Digital Games as Historical Learning Contexts for Primary School Classrooms
4 Grand Theft Longboat: Using Video Games and Medievalism to Teach Medieval History
5 The Great History Conundrum: Could Immersive Games Enhance an Undergraduate ‘Skills’ Course?
6 Play as a Technique for History in Higher Education
Part 3 Computer Games and Public History
7 The Heritage Game
8 Respawning the Past
Part 4 Reflections on Gaming and History
9 Playing Against the Past?: Representing the Play Element of Historical Cultures in Video Games
10 Fantasies of Control: Modding for Ethnic Violence and Nazi Fetishism in Historical Strategy Games
11 Charlemagne at the Battle of Gettysburg: Video Games and the Middle Ages
Part 5 Fan Cultures of Historic Games
12 History, Fandom, and Online Game Communities
13 Ye Olde FAQ: The Darklands Game, Immersiveness and Fan Fiction
14 Arnold Hendrick on Darklands
Part 6 ‘Accuracy’ in Computer Games
15 Shooting for Accuracy: Historicity and Video Gaming
16 Modern Warfare: Call of Duty, Battlefield, and the World Wars
17 ‘Man Spielt Nicht Mit Hakenkreuzen!’: Imaginations of the Holocaust and Crimes Against Humanity During World War II in Digital Games
List of Contributors
Index