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The Information Master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472025268
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Information MasterDDC classification:
  • 944/.033092
LOC classification:
  • DC130
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Between Public and Secret Spheres: The Case of Colbert -- 2. Colbert's Cosmos: The Expert and the Rise of the Modern State -- 3. The Accountant and the Coups d'État -- 4. Royal Accountability: Louis XIV and the Golden Notebooks -- 5. The Rule of the Informers -- 6. Managing the System: Colbert Trains His Son for the Great Intendancy -- 7. From Universal Library to State Encyclopedia: Colbert's House of Solomon -- 8. Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Republic of Letters: The State Control of Knowledge -- 9. The Information State in Play: Archives, Erudition, and the Affair of the Régale -- 10. The System Falls Apart, but the State Remains -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations.
Summary: A fascinating inquiry into Jean-Baptiste Colbert's collection of knowledge.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Between Public and Secret Spheres: The Case of Colbert -- 2. Colbert's Cosmos: The Expert and the Rise of the Modern State -- 3. The Accountant and the Coups d'État -- 4. Royal Accountability: Louis XIV and the Golden Notebooks -- 5. The Rule of the Informers -- 6. Managing the System: Colbert Trains His Son for the Great Intendancy -- 7. From Universal Library to State Encyclopedia: Colbert's House of Solomon -- 8. Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Republic of Letters: The State Control of Knowledge -- 9. The Information State in Play: Archives, Erudition, and the Affair of the Régale -- 10. The System Falls Apart, but the State Remains -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations.

A fascinating inquiry into Jean-Baptiste Colbert's collection of knowledge.

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