TY - BOOK AU - Soll,Jacob TI - The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System T2 - Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World Series SN - 9780472025268 AV - DC130 U1 - 944/.033092 PY - 2009/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - A fascinating inquiry into Jean-Baptiste Colbert's collection of knowledge UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3414691 ER -