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

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

"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, U...

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Main Author: Soll, Jacob, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009.
Series:Cultures of knowledge in the early modern world.
Subjects:
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, > 1619-1683.
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, > 1619-1683 > Political and social views.
Colbert, Jean Baptiste, > 1619-1683
Colbert, Jean Baptiste > 1619-1683
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, > 1619-1683 > politiska och sociala åsikter.
Seignelay, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de > Politiker, 1651-1690.
1600 - 1715
Public administration > France > History > 17th century.
Government information > France > History > 17th century.
Knowledge management > France > History > 17th century.
Records > Political aspects > France > History > 17th century.
Archives > Political aspects > France > History > 17th century.
Statesmen > France > Biography.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Archives > Political aspects
Government information
Intellectual life
Knowledge management
Political and social views
Politics and government
Public administration
Statesmen
Politik
Wissensmanagement
Herrschaft
Statsmän > Frankrike > biografi.
France > Politics and government > 1643-1715.
France > Intellectual life > 17th century.
France
Frankreich
Frankrike > politik och förvaltning > historia > 1600-talet.
Frankrike > intellektuellt liv > historia > 1600-talet.
Biographies
History
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Table of 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.

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