7 Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction vii
4. Alphabetical List of Entries xiii
5. Thematic List of Entries xv
6. Contributors xvii
7. PART ONE
8. 1 Premodern Regimes and Practices 3
9. 2 Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World 21
10. 3 Information in Early Modern East Asia 38
11. 4 Information in Early Modern Europe 61
12. 5 Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century 86
13. 6 Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, circa 1400–1700 104
14. 7 Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era 128
15. 8 Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century 152
16. 9 Nineteenth-Century Media Technologies 174
17. 10 Networking: Information Circles the Modern World 190
18. 11 Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising 211
19. 12 Communication, Computation, and Information 238
20. 13 Search 259
21. PART TWO
22. Alphabetical Entries 287
23. Glossary 833
24. Index 841