Paul M. Dover (Georgia Kennesaw State University)

The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• New Approaches to European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781316602034
• ISBN-10: 1316602036
• Artikelnr.: 60415985

Autorenporträt

Paul M. Dover is Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. He has published widely in the political, diplomatic and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, and in the history of information. He is the author of the Changing Face of the Past (2013) and the editor of Secretaries and Statecraft in the Early Modern World (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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.