Information : a historical companion / edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton. - Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2021. - xx, 881 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Premodern regimes and practices -- Realms of information in the medieval Islamic world -- Information in early modern East Asia -- Information in early modern Europe -- Networks and the making of a connected world in the sixteenth century -- Records, secretaries, and the European information state, circa 1400-1700 -- Periodicals and the commercialization of information i nteh early modern era -- Documents, empire, and capitalism in teh nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century media technologies -- Networking : information circles in the modern world -- Publicity, propaganda, and public opinion : from the Titanic disaster to the Hungarian Uprising -- Communication, computation, and information -- Search -- Alphabetical entries.

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Information science--History.
Information science--Encyclopedias.

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