AL MOMENTO ESAURITO
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101316602036
ISBN-139781316602034
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050386913
Product Key Features
Number of Pages270 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameInformation Revolution in Early Modern Europe
SubjectSociology / General, Europe / General
Publication Year2021
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
AuthorPaul M. Dover
SeriesNew Approaches to European History Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Reviews'This engaging synthesis tracks an 'information revolution' across early modern European culture, from commerce and politics to many fields of learning and genres of personal writing. More than printing it was paper that fuelled both the explosion of information and many practices of managing it that have proved remarkably enduring.' Ann Blair, Harvard University
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 62
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.483094
Table Of Content1. Introduction: worlds of paper; 2. European paper; 3. 'Ink-Stained fingers': the information of commerce and finance; 4. The paper of politics and the politics of paper; 5. Revolutionary print; 6. The book of nature and the books of man; 7. Writing others and the self; 8. Conclusion: information revolutions, past and present.
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisThis 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., This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, especially through the use of paper, had a transformative impact on political, social, cultural and economic life.
LC Classification NumberHM846
