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The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system / Jacob Soll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soll, Jacob, 1968-
- Series:
- Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 1619-1683.
- Colbert, Jean Baptiste.
- Colbert, Jean Baptiste, 1619-1683--Political and social views.
- Public administration--France--History--17th century.
- Public administration.
- Government information--France--History--17th century.
- Government information.
- Knowledge management--France--History--17th century.
- Knowledge management.
- Records--Political aspects--France--History--17th century.
- Records.
- Archives--Political aspects--France--History--17th century.
- Archives.
- Statesmen--France--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Archives--Political aspects.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- France.
- France--Politics and government--1643-1715.
- Politics and government.
- France--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Between Public and Secret Spheres The Case Of Colbert 1
- 2 Colbert's Cosmos The Expert And The Rise Of The Modern State 13
- 3 The Accountant and the Coups D'État 34
- 4 Royal Accountability Louis Xiv and the Golden Notebooks 50
- 5 The Rule of the Informers 67
- 6 Managing the System Colbert Trains His Son For The Great Intendancy 84
- 7 From Universal Library to State Encyclopedia Colbert's House Of Solomon 94
- 8 Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Republic of Letters The State Control Of Knowledge 120
- 9 The Information State in Play Archives, Erudition, and The Affair of the Régale 140
- 10 The System Falls Apart, but the State Remains 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472116904
- 0472116908
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.243021
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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