[ecrea] New book on history and video games

We are delighted to announce the UK and EU publication of Playing with 
the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of History (Bloomsbury, 
2013), edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Andrew B.R. Elliott.

/Playing with the Past/ builds on existing Games Studies scholarship to 
take it in a different direction; the 20+ essays in the book to look at 
the ways in which video games engage with history, asking whether the 
history we can learn by playing is a history worth learning. Likewise, 
the collection builds on existing studies of historical representation 
in popular culture to examine an under-appreciated, but rapidly 
emerging, medium.

With contributions from a host of established and emerging voices in 
both games and history, /Playing with the Past/ opens up new avenues for 
exploring popular culture's engagement with the past in a massively 
popular medium.

For more information and Table of Contents, click here to go to the 
Bloomsbury website 
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/playing-with-the-past-9781623567286/>, or 
buy the book on Amazon here 
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Past-Digital-Simulation-History/dp/1623567289>.


Matthew Wilhelm Kapell has graduate degrees in biological anthropology 
and history as well as a Ph.D. in American Studies. He has published on 
genetics, urban history, African colonial history, as well as four books 
in film and television studies and has taught extensively in the United 
States and Great Britain. Andrew B.R. Elliott is a Senior Lecturer in 
Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Lincoln, and is author 
of /Remaking the Middle Ages/, and editor of the forthcoming /The Return 
of the Epic Film/, out soon with Edinburgh University Press.