Virtual history : how videogames portray the past / A. Martin Wainwright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wainwright, A. Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Video games--Design.

History in popular culture.

Physical Description:

xiii, 219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wainwright, A. Martin, author. Virtual history

ISBN:

9781138069084

1138069086

9781138069091

1138069094

OCLC:

1084410051