The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Author: Paul M. Dover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781107147539

This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational challenges of the digital age.

The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Author: Paul M. Dover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009213377

This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational challenges of the digital age.

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Author: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2005-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521845434

New illustrated and abridged edition surveys the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.

Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World

Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
Author: Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1991-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520913752

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Arguing from an exciting and original perspective, Goldstone suggests that great revolutions were the product of 'ecological crises' that occurred when inflexible political, economic, and social institutions were overwhelmed by the cumulative pressure of population growth on limited available resources. Moreover, he contends that the causes of the great revolutions of Europe—the English and French revolutions—were similar to those of the great rebellions of Asia, which shattered dynasties in Ottoman Turkey, China, and Japan. The author observes that revolutions and rebellions have more often produced a crushing state orthodoxy than liberal institutions, leading to the conclusion that perhaps it is vain to expect revolution to bring democracy and economic progress. Instead, contends Goldstone, the path to these goals must begin with respect for individual liberty rather than authoritarian movements of 'national liberation.' Arguing that the threat of revolution is still with us, Goldstone urges us to heed the lessons of the past. He sees in the United States a repetition of the behavior patterns that have led to internal decay and international decline in the past, a situation calling for new leadership and careful attention to the balance between our consumption and our resources. Meticulously researched, forcefully argued, and strikingly original, Revolutions and Rebellions in the Early Modern World is a tour de force by a brilliant young scholar. It is a book that will surely engender much discussion and debate.

Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Author: Carolyn Harris
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 113749168X

Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history. They both faced accusations that they had transgressed social, gender and regional norms, and attempted to defend themselves against negative reactions to their behavior. Each queen engaged with the debates of her time concerning the place of women within their families, religion, politics, the public sphere and court culture and attempted to counter criticism of her foreign origins and political influence. The impeachment of Henrietta Maria in 1643 and trial and execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793 were also trials of monarchical government that shaped the English Civil Wars and French Revolution.

Making Archives in Early Modern Europe

Making Archives in Early Modern Europe
Author: Randolph C. Head
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108473784

Compares the archives of European states after 1500 to reveal changes in how records supported memory, authority and power.

The Military Revolution Debate

The Military Revolution Debate
Author: Clifford J Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429975899

This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange.

Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800

Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800
Author: Julius R. Ruff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521598941

A broad-ranging survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution. Julius Ruff summarises a huge body of research and provides readers with a clear, accessible, and engaging introduction to the topic of violence in early modern Europe. His book, enriched with fascinating illustrations, underlines the fact that modern preoccupations with the problem of violence are not unique, and that late medieval and early modern European societies produced levels of violence that may have exceeded those in the most violent modern inner-city neighbourhoods. Julius Ruff examines the role of the emerging state in controlling violence; the roots and forms of the period's widespread interpersonal violence; violence and its impact on women; infanticide; and rioting. This book, in the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History, will be of great value to students of European history, criminal justice sciences, and anthropology.

The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Author: Paul M Dover
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781316556177

""The fear of obliteration obsessed the societies of early modern Europe," Roger Chartier writes in Inscription and Erasure. "To quell their anxiety, they preserved in writing traces of the past, remembrances of the dead, the glory of the living, and texts of all kinds that were not supposed to disappear."1 The efforts they made to confront this anxiety, however, paradoxically generated a new, related anxiety: the urge to preserve, record, and ward off obliteration frequently led to an unmanageable accumulation of texts, records, and ephemera of wildly varying utility and quality. Most of this was paper, which was not a new technology in early modern Europe but one whose use proliferated and diversified in these centuries. Paper, as never before, became the transactional medium; the repository of personal, communal, and institutional memory; the avenue of communication; the lifeblood of bureaucracies; and the foundation and residue of learning. Early modern Europeans, whether or not they sought to, and whether or not they were pleased with or trusted the new reality, put paper inscribed with text at the center of their lives"--