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The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system /

"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, U...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soll, Jacob, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Colección:Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Between public and secret spheres : the case of Colbert
  • 2. Colbert's cosmos : the expert and the rise of the modern state
  • 3. The accountant and the coups d'etat
  • 4. Royal accountability : Louis XIV and the golden notebooks
  • 5. The rule of the informers
  • 6. Managing the system : Colbert trains his son for the great intendancy
  • 7. From universal library to state encyclopedia : Colbert's House of Solomon
  • 8. Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Republic of Letters : the state control of knowledge
  • 9. The information state in play : archives, erudition, and the affair of the regale
  • 10. The system falls apart, but the state remains.