Information as a subject, with its various objects and tools, is a rapidly expanding subfield of history. No longer is it just about knowledge, history of the book, or the expanded use of newspapers and journals. New ways of looking at information in society drawn from the insights of electronics and, most recently, biology and genetics, has led historians to explore the features of information and to debate whether we live in an Information Age. Information is one of the first compendiums that begin the process of codifying what historians understand about the history of knowledge. It demonstrates that the vast supply of information, so conspicuous in today’s society, is not a new phenomenon; it is, rather, the continuing use, volume, and visibility of codified information that human societies have created for thousands of years. In this book, through a series of 13 essays and 101 short encyclopedic entries, dozens...
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September 01 2021
Information: A Historical Companion edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton
Information: A Historical Companion
. Edited by Ann
Blair
Paul
Duguid
Anja-Silvia
Goeing
Anthony
Grafton
Princeton
, Princeton University Press
, 2021
) 904 pp. $65.00
James W. Cortada
James W. Cortada
University of Minnesota
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James W. Cortada
University of Minnesota
Online ISSN: 1530-9169
Print ISSN: 0022-1953
© 2021 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2021
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2021) 52 (2): 265–267.
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James W. Cortada; Information: A Historical Companion edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2021; 52 (2): 265–267. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01702
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