The Routledge Handbook of Information History (Hardcover, 1)

Part 1: Introduction

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1. Situating Information History: The History and Historiography of Information and its Practices

Alistair Black, Bonnie Mak, Laura Skouvig, and Toni Weller?

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Part 2: Visualising, Describing, Expressing

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2. Information in the Roman Empire

Andrew Riggsby

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3. Information and its Forms: Documentary Practices in the Medieval West (Mid-Ninth to Mid-Thirteenth Centuries)?

Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak

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4. The Andean Khipus: An Information System Made of String

Lucrezia Milillo and Sabine Hyland?

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5. Racialised Language in Colonial Newspaper Advertisements During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Natalia da Silva Perez?

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6. “There Must be Something Vicious in the Data.” Thomas Jefferson’s Techniques of Racialisation in the Production of Data, Facts, and Information??

Melissa Adler

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7. Encyclopaedias as Cultural Carriers of Information: A Scandinavian Perspective

Maria Simonsen

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8. Paul Otlet’s Experiments with Knowledge Organisation and Explorations of a Future Semantic Web?

Charles van den Heuvel

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9. Information as Instruction: A Short History of Attack Journalism

Bethany Usher

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10. The Fault Lines of Knowledge: An Examination of the History of Wikipedia’s “Neutral Point of View” (NPOV) Information Policy and its Implications for a Polarised World

Brendan Luyt?

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11. Facial AIs and Information Systems in Historical Context

Edward Higgs

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Part 3: Managing, Ordering, Classifying

12. “Those Who Help His Sight and Hearing are Many:” Information and the State in Early China

Rebecca Robinson

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13. Creativity in Classification: Phrasing and Presenting the Aristotelian Categories in the

Middle Ages

Irene O’Daly

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14. Trading Factories as Information Factories: Aspects of Information Management in the Dutch East India Company’s Japanese Factory, 1609-1623

Gabor Szommer

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15. The Female Body as an Object of Information: Britain During the Late Victorian and Edwardian Period

Toni Weller

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16. Information, Topography and War: Information Management in Britain’s Inter-Service Topographical Department (ISTD) in the Second World War?

Alistair Black

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17. The Wartime Social Survey as Information History

Henry Irving

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18. Sensitive Information: Knowing and Preparing for Nuclear War During the Cold War

Rosanna Farbøl and Casper Sylvest

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19. “Men are Engineers, Women are Computers.” Women and the Information Technology Interregnum

Antony Bryant

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20. Central and Local: A History of Archives in Twentieth-Century England

Elizabeth Shepherd

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21. Representing Information in the Western World: Classification, Cataloguing and the Library Context Since Industrialisation

Karen Attar

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22. The History of Computing: The Development of an Information History Field

William Aspray

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23. Smart Cities and Informatic Governance: The Management of Information and People in Postcolonial Singapore

Hallam Stevens and Manoj Harjani?

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Part 4: Circulating, Networking, Controlling

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24. The Politics of Communication in the Early Modern City: Istanbul and Venice

Filippo de Vivo

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25. Recipes, Gold and Information Exchange: Workshop Cultures in the Early Modern Metropolis

Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin

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26. Colonial Political Economies of Information: The East India Company and the Growth of Science in Britain?

Jessica Ratcliff

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27. In Between Writing and Orality: The Circulation of Information in the Black Spanish Caribbean?During the Age of Revolutions, 1789-1808?

Cristina Soriano

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28. Information and Mobility: Migrants and Roma as Historical Cases

Eve Rosenhaft

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29. Emotions as Commodities: Street Ballads and the Commercialisation of Information

Laura Skouvig

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30. How Information Changed Between the Late Nineteenth Century and World War II?

James W. Cortada?

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31. Factual Fictions and Fictionalised Facts in the Reports of the Romanian Secret Police

Valentina Glajar and Corina L. Petrescu?

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32. Families as Communities of Information. Or: The Importance of Knowing your Relatives

Markus Friedrich

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33. Feathers and Formats: Information, Technology and Homing Pigeons in War

Frank Blazich Jr.

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34. Information and Communication Theories: A Global History of the (Con)fusion?

Gabriele Balbi, Gianluigi Negro, Maria Rikitianskaia, Carlos Alberto Scolari, and Dominique Trudel

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35. Decolonisation and Information in Postcolonial Egypt, 1952-1967

Zoe LeBlanc

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36. Dynamics of the Human Element in South Africa’s Information History

Archie L. Dick?

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Part 5: Afterword

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37. What is Information History For?

Bonnie Mak