Information history in the modern world
Subtitle: histories of the information age
By: edited by Toni Weller
Series: Themes in focus
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780230237360; 9780230237377
Subjects: Historiography; Information science; History
Description: "This edited collection of essays brings together, for the first time, notable scholars from the UK, US and Europe in the field of information history. It explores the key themes and ideas, offering students a diverse taster of information history in practice and relating this historical research to the contemporary information age"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Toni Weller; title: Personal identification on information flows in England  -- Edward Higgs; title: Information for the public: information infrastructure in the republic of letters  -- W. Boyd Rayward; title: Designing and gathering information: perspectives on nineteenth-century form  -- Paul Stiff, Paul Dobraszczyk and Mike Esbester; title: Broadside ballads, almanacs and the Illustrated news: genres and rhetoric in the communication of information in Denmark, 1800-1925  -- Laura Skouvig -- Information and empire: the information and intelligence bureaux or the Imperial Institute of London, 1887-1949 / -- Dave Muddiman; title: ;A valuable handbook of information': the Staff Magazine in the first half of the twentieth century as a means of information management  -- Alistair Black; title: Modelling recent information history: the 'Banditry' of the Lord's resistance army in Uganda  -- Pual Sturges; title: Rewriting history: the information age and the knowable past  -- Luke Tredinnick; title: Conclusion: information history in the modern world -- Toni Weller.