Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Information Revolution In Early Modern Europe
Author(s): Dover Paul M. (Kennesaw State University Georgia)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781316602034
Pages: 270 Pages
Publication Date: 12/23/2021
Series: New Approaches to European History
Category: Publishing Industry & Book Trade