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"Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager." ---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge "Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning attention to detail Colbert used knowledge in the service of enhancing royal power. Jacob Soll's scholarship is impeccable and his story long overdue and compelling." ---Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles "Nowadays we all know that information is the key to power, and that the masters of information rule the world. Jacob Soll teaches us that Jean-Baptiste Colbert had grasped this principle three and a half centuries ago, and used it to construct a new kind of state. This imaginative, erudite, and powerfully written book re-creates the history of libraries and archives in early modern Europe, and ties them in a novel and convincing way to the new statecraft of Europe's absolute monarchs." ---Anthony Grafton, Princeton University "Brilliantly researched, superbly told, and timely, Soll's story is crucial for the history of the modern state." ---Keith Baker, Stanford University When Louis XIV asked his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert---the man who was to oversee the building of Versailles and the Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as the navy, the Paris police force, and French industry---to build a large-scale administrative government, Colbert created an unprecedented information system for political power. In The Information Master, Jacob Soll shows how the legacy of Colbert's encyclopedic tradition lies at the very center of the rise of the modern state and was a precursor to industrial intelligence and Internet search engines. Soll's innovative look at Colbert's rise to power argues that his practice of collecting knowledge originated from techniques of church scholarship and from Renaissance Italy, where merchants recognized the power to be gained from merging scholarship, finance, and library science. With his connection of interdisciplinary approaches---regarding accounting, state administration, archives, libraries, merchant techniques, ecclesiastical culture, policing, and humanist pedagogy---Soll has written an innovative book that will redefine not only the history of the reign of Louis XIV and information science but also the study of political and economic history. Jacket illustration: Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Philippe de Champaigne, 1655, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Wildenstein Foundation, Inc., 1951 (51.34). Photograph © 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
ISBN-10
0472034642
ISBN-13
9780472034642
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Author
Jacob Soll
Publication Name
Information Master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Series
Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in

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" The Information Master is well researched and an intriguing read, and by bringing together diverse strands of research from humanism to enlightened despotism adds much to the ongoing debates about the nature of royal absolutism in early modern France." -Jonathan Spangler, Renaissance Quarterly, "...this slender volume is an engaging case study of the interactions between information and government in early-modern Europe." --Toby Osborne, French History, "Soll's study is a major piece of scholarship, based on a wide knowledge of primary archival and contemporary printed material and secondary literature...and I commend Soll for his fascinating investigation of Colbert's mastery over information." -Christopher J. Napier, Business History, "Soll's study is a major piece of scholarship, based on a wide knowledge of primary archival and contemporary printed material and secondary literature...and I commend Soll for his fascinating investigation of Colbert's mastery over information." --Christopher J. Napier, Business History, "...this slender volume is an engaging case study of the interactions between information and government in early-modern Europe." -- Toby Osborne, French History, "...essential reading for historians of scholarship and collecting, but it will perhaps be of most interest to those political and administrative historians of seventeenth-century Europe for whom Colbert has so long been a neglected figure and for whom questions of communication and information are now increasingly important." - Nicholas Dew, ISIS: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, "...this slender volume is an engaging case study of the interactions between information and government in early-modern Europe." -Toby Osborne, French History, "...essential reading for historians of scholarship and collecting, but it will perhaps be of most interest to those political and administrative historians of seventeenth-century Europe for whom Colbert has so long been a neglected figure and for whom questions of communication and information are now increasingly important." -Nicholas Dew, ISIS: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, "...this slender volume is an engaging case study of the interactions between information and government in early-modern Europe." -Toby Osborne, French History, "...essential reading for historians of scholarship and collecting, but it will perhaps be of most interest to those political and administrative historians of seventeenth-century Europe for whom Colbert has so long been a neglected figure and for whom questions of communication and information are now increasingly important." --Nicholas Dew, ISIS: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, " The Information Master is well researched and an intriguing read, and by bringing together diverse strands of research from humanism to enlightened despotism adds much to the ongoing debates about the nature of royal absolutism in early modern France." --Jonathan Spangler, Renaissance Quarterly
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Knowledge Capital, Public Affairs & Administration, Europe / France, History & Theory, General, Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries, Political, Référence
Dewey Decimal
944/.033092
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Political Science

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