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The information revolution in early modern Europe / Paul M. Dover, Kennesaw State University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dover, Paul M., author.
- Series:
- New approaches to European history ; 62.
- New approaches to European history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information science--Europe--History.
- Information science.
- Printing--Europe--History.
- Printing.
- Written communication--Europe--History.
- Written communication.
- Information resources management--Europe--History.
- Information resources management.
- Information organization--Europe--History.
- Information organization.
- Papermaking--Europe--History.
- Papermaking.
- Europe--Intellectual life.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational challenges of the digital age.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Worlds of Paper
- European Paper
- 'Ink Stained Fingers'- The Information of Commerce and Finance
- The Paper of Politics and the Politics of Paper
- Revolutionary Print
- The Book of Nature and the Books of Man
- Writing Others and the Self
- Conclusion: Information Revolutions, Past and Present.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-21337-7
- 1-009-21336-9
- 1-316-55617-4
- OCLC:
- 1260692964
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