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The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system, Jacob Soll

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"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, University of Cambridge "Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning attention to detail Colbert used knowledge in the service of enhancing royal power. Jacob Soll's scholarship is impeccable and his story long overdue and compelling."--Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles "Nowadays we all know that information is the key to power, and that the masters of information rule the world. Jacob Soll teaches us that Jean-Baptiste Colbert had grasped this principle three and a half centuries ago, and used it to construct a new kind of state. This imaginative, erudite, and powerfully written book re-creates the history of libraries and archives in early modern Europe, and ties them in a novel and convincing way to the new statecraft of Europe's absolute monarchs."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University "Brilliantly researched, superbly told, and timely, Soll's story is crucial for the history of the modern state."--Keith Baker, Stanford University When Louis XIV asked his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert--the man who was to oversee the building of Versailles and the Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as the navy, the Paris police force, and French industry--to build a large-scale administrative government, Colbert created an unprecedented information system for political power. In The Information Master, Jacob Soll shows how the legacy of Colbert's encyclopedic tradition lies at the very center of the rise of the modern state and was a precursor to industrial intelligence and Internet search engines. Soll's innovative look at Colbert's rise to power argues that his practice of collecting knowledge originated from techniques of church scholarship and from Renaissance Italy, where merchants recognized the power to be gained from merging scholarship, finance, and library science. With his connection of interdisciplinary approaches--regarding accounting, state administration, archives, libraries, merchant techniques, ecclesiastical culture, policing, and humanist pedagogy--Soll has written an innovative book that will redefine not only the history of the reign of Louis XIV and information science but also the study of political and economic history. Jacob Soll is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and winner of the 2005 Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Soll edited a special issue of Journal of the History of Ideas titled "The Uses of Historical Evidence in Early Modern Europe"; has cofounded the online journal Republics of Letters; and is editor, along with Anthony Grafton and Ann Blair, of the series Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Jacket illustration: Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Philippe de Champaigne, 1655, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Wildenstein Foundation, Inc., 1951 (51.34). Photograph © 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents
  • 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
Isbn
9780472025268
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The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system
Title
The information master
Title remainder
Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system
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Jacob Soll
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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, University of Cambridge "Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning attention to detail Colbert used knowledge in the service of enhancing royal power. Jacob Soll's scholarship is impeccable and his story long overdue and compelling."--Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles "Nowadays we all know that information is the key to power, and that the masters of information rule the world. Jacob Soll teaches us that Jean-Baptiste Colbert had grasped this principle three and a half centuries ago, and used it to construct a new kind of state. This imaginative, erudite, and powerfully written book re-creates the history of libraries and archives in early modern Europe, and ties them in a novel and convincing way to the new statecraft of Europe's absolute monarchs."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University "Brilliantly researched, superbly told, and timely, Soll's story is crucial for the history of the modern state."--Keith Baker, Stanford University When Louis XIV asked his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert--the man who was to oversee the building of Versailles and the Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as the navy, the Paris police force, and French industry--to build a large-scale administrative government, Colbert created an unprecedented information system for political power. In The Information Master, Jacob Soll shows how the legacy of Colbert's encyclopedic tradition lies at the very center of the rise of the modern state and was a precursor to industrial intelligence and Internet search engines. Soll's innovative look at Colbert's rise to power argues that his practice of collecting knowledge originated from techniques of church scholarship and from Renaissance Italy, where merchants recognized the power to be gained from merging scholarship, finance, and library science. With his connection of interdisciplinary approaches--regarding accounting, state administration, archives, libraries, merchant techniques, ecclesiastical culture, policing, and humanist pedagogy--Soll has written an innovative book that will redefine not only the history of the reign of Louis XIV and information science but also the study of political and economic history. Jacob Soll is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and winner of the 2005 Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Soll edited a special issue of Journal of the History of Ideas titled "The Uses of Historical Evidence in Early Modern Europe"; has cofounded the online journal Republics of Letters; and is editor, along with Anthony Grafton and Ann Blair, of the series Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Jacket illustration: Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Philippe de Champaigne, 1655, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Wildenstein Foundation, Inc., 1951 (51.34). Photograph © 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1968-
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Soll, Jacob
Dewey number
944/.033092
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
DC130.C6
LC item number
S68 2009eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world
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  • Colbert, Jean Baptiste
  • Colbert, Jean Baptiste
  • Public administration
  • Government information
  • Knowledge management
  • Records
  • Archives
  • Statesmen
  • France
  • France
  • Colbert, Jean Baptiste
  • Colbert, Jean Baptiste
  • Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
  • Seignelay, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • Archives
  • Government information
  • Intellectual life
  • Knowledge management
  • Political and social views
  • Politics and government
  • Public administration
  • Statesmen
  • France
  • Politik
  • Frankreich
  • Wissensmanagement
  • Herrschaft
  • Statsmän
  • Frankrike
  • Frankrike
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The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system, Jacob Soll
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index
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online resource
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other
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text
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Contents
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
Control code
643805520
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780472025268
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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10.3998/mpub.243021
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illustrations
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  • 259152
  • 22573/ctt1d3kjpr
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remote
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(OCoLC)643805520
Label
The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system, Jacob Soll
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
other
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Control code
643805520
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xi, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780472025268
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.3998/mpub.243021
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 259152
  • 22573/ctt1d3kjpr
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)643805520

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