The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System - Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World - Jacob Soll - Books - The University of Michigan Press - 9780472034642 - August 8, 2011
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The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System - Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert saw governance of the state not as the inherent ability of the king, but as a form of mechanical mastery of subjects such as medieval legal history, physics, navigation, and the price lists of nails, sails, and gunpowder. In The Information Master, Jacob Soll shows how the legacy of Colbert's encyclopaedic tradition lies at the very centre of the rise of the modern state.

328 pages, illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 8, 2011
ISBN13 9780472034642
Publishers The University of Michigan Press
Pages 328
Dimensions 154 × 230 × 16 mm   ·   430 g

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