Information : : A Historical Companion /

Information : : A Historical Companion / / ed. by Paul Duguid, Anthony Grafton, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Ann Blair.

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A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuriesThanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday lives, and how did its processing and st...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
HerausgeberIn:
Blair, Ann,
Duguid, Paul,
Goeing, Anja-Silvia,
Grafton, Anthony,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (904 p.) :; 43 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Alphabetical List of Entries
  • Thematic List of Entries
  • Contributors
  • PART ONE
  • 1 Premodern Regimes and Practices
  • 2 Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World
  • 3 Information in Early Modern East Asia
  • 4 Information in Early Modern Europe
  • 5 Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century
  • 6 Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, circa 1400–1700
  • 7 Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era
  • 8 Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century
  • 9 Nineteenth-Century Media Technologies
  • 10 Networking: Information Circles the Modern World
  • 11 Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising
  • 12 Communication, Computation, and Information
  • 13 Search
  • PART TWO
  • Alphabetical Entries
  • Glossary
  • Index

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