Information a short history
An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societies. Thanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. How did information become so central to our everyday lives? This book traces the global emergence of information practices and techn...
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press
[2024]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Premodern Regimes and Practices
- Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World
- Information in Early Modern East Asia
- Information in Early Modern Europe
- Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century
- Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, circa 1400-1700
- Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era
- Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century
- Nineteenth-Century Media Technologies
- Networking
- Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising
- Communication, Computation, and Information
- Search
- Glossary.
