Glossary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. 1 Premodern Regimes and Practices 1
6. 2 Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World 24
7. 3 Information in Early Modern East Asia 47
8. 4 Information in Early Modern Europe 78
9. 5 Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century 112
10. 6 Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, circa 1400–1700 136
11. 7 Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era 168
12. 8 Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century 199
13. 9 Nineteenth-Century Media Technologies 229
14. 10 Networking: Information Circles the Modern World 251
15. 11 Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising 279
16. 12 Communication, Computation, and Information 315
17. 13 Search 343
18. Glossary 379
19. Contributors 389
20. Index 391
21. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 405