Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

This provocative history of early modern Europe puts information and information management at the centre of the period's many transformations.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Paul M. Dover, Paul M. (Kennesaw State University Dover, Dover Paul M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2021
• EAN: 9781316602034
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60203-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: New Approaches to European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, Later 15th century c 1450 to c 1499