SULJE VALIKKO

avaa valikko

The Specter of the Archive - Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain
116,90 €
The University of Chicago Press
Sivumäärä: 320 sivua
Asu: Kovakantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024, 24.01.2024 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.
 
We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive, Nicholas Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with the same problem—how to deal with too much information at their fingertips.
 
He reveals that early modern Britain was a society newly drowning in paper, a light and durable technology whose spread allowed statesmen to record drafts, memoranda, and other ephemera that might otherwise have been lost, and also made it possible for ordinary people to collect political texts. As original paperwork and copies alike flooded the government, information management became the core of politics. Focusing on two of the primary political archives of early modern England, the Tower of London Record Office and the State Paper Office, Popper traces the circulation of their materials through the government and the broader public sphere. In this early media-saturated society, we find the origins of many issues we face today: Who shapes the archive? Can we trust the pictures of the past and the present that it shows us? And, in a more politically urgent vein: Does a huge volume of widely available information (not all of it accurate) risk contributing to polarization and extremism?

Tuotetta lisätty
ostoskoriin kpl
Siirry koriin
LISÄÄ OSTOSKORIIN
Tilaustuote | Arvioimme, että tuote lähetetään meiltä noin 4-5 viikossa | Tilaa jouluksi viimeistään 27.11.2024
Myymäläsaatavuus
Helsinki
Tapiola
Turku
Tampere
The Specter of the Archive - Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britainzoom
Näytä kaikki tuotetiedot
ISBN:
9780226825953
Sisäänkirjautuminen
Kirjaudu sisään
Rekisteröityminen
Oma tili
Omat tiedot
Omat tilaukset
Omat laskut
Lisätietoja
Asiakaspalvelu
Tietoa verkkokaupasta
Toimitusehdot
Tietosuojaseloste