Entries alphabetically by author -- K to P

  • Journals and commonplace books of Jacob Corey, 1773-1802 (inclusive). B MS b240.1, Volume 6, Countway Library of Medicine.
  • Lambertus a S. Audomaro: Liber Floridus, Saint-Omer, 1121, f. 18v-19r
  • Clementinum, Prague, Baroque Library, picture taken by Bruno Delzant, License CC BY 2.0, detail.<https://www.flickr.com/photos/23303621@N02/2771327135>
Clicking on the names and titles below, you will find a further reading bibliography unfolding that the authors of each short entry in Information: A Historical Companion (2021)  have compiled and updated for their entry.  To move on to the next part (entries R to Z), please click here. To move back to the chapter section, please click here

Kassell cases

Álvarez Millán, Cristina. ‘The Case History in Medieval Islamic Medical Literature: Tajarib and Muyarrabat as Source’, Medical History, 52 (2010), 195-214.

Anderson, Warwick, ‘The Case of the Archive’, Critical Inquiry, 39 (2013), 532-47.

Ankeny, Rachel, ‘Using Cases to Establish Novel Diagnoses: Creating Generic Facts by Making Particular Facts Travel Together’, in How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge, ed. Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 252-72.

Berkenkotter, Carol, Patient Tales: Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiatry (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008).

Berlant, Lauren (ed.), ‘On the Case’, special issue of Critical Inquiry, 33 (2007).

Crisciani, Chiara, ‘L’individuale nella medicina tra Medioevo e Umanesimo: i Consilia’, in Umanesimo e medicina: Il problema dell’individuale, ed. Roberto Cardini and Mariangela Regoliosi (Rome: Bulzoni, 1996), pp. 1-20.

Cullen, Christopher, ‘Yi’an (Case Statements): The Origins of a Genre of Chinese Medical Literature’, in Innovation in Chinese Medicine, ed. Elisabeth Hsu (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 297-323.

Forrester, John, ‘If p, then what? Thinking in cases’, History of the Human Sciences, 9 (1996), 1-25. Reprinted in John Forrester, Thinking in Cases (Cambridge: Polity, 2017).

Furth, Charlotte, Judith Zeitlin and Hsiung Pingchen (eds), Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007. For an abbreviated version of the introduction, see Charlotte Furth, ‘Thinking in Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Pre-modern Chinese History’, Postcolonial Studies, 12 (2009), 467-79.

Hess, Volker, “A Paper Machine of Clinical Research in the Early Twentieth Century,” Isis 109 (2018), 473–93.

Hurwitz, Brian,  “Narrative Constructs in Modern Clinical Case Reporting,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 62 (2017), 65–73.

Kassell, Lauren, ‘Casebooks in Early Modern England: Astrology, Medicine and Written Records’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 88 (2014), 595–625.

Lloyd, G. R. E. ‘Galen’s Unhippocratic Case Histories’, in Galen and the World of Knowledge, ed. Christopher Gill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 115–31.

Mendelsohn, J. Andrew, ‘Empiricism in the Library: Medicine’s Case Histories’, in Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures, ed. Lorraine Daston (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2017), pp. 85-109.

Millard, Chis, and Felicity Callard (eds.), Thinking in, with, across, and beyond cased with John Forrester, special issue, History of the Human Sciences, 33, 3-4 (2020): https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/hhs/33/3-4

Nickles, Thomas, ‘Normal Science: From Logic to Case-Based and Model-Based Reasoning’, in Thomas Kuhn, ed. Thomas Nickles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 142–77.

Passeron, Jean-Claude and Jacques Revel (eds), Penser par cas (2005).

Pomata, Gianna, ‘Observation Rising: Birth of an Epistemic Genre, 1500–1650’, in Histories of Scientific Observation, ed Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011), pp. 45–81.

Keller lists

Brendecke, Arndt The Empirical Empire, 2016.

Eco, Umberto. The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay, 2009.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, 1979.

Florio, John. A World of Wordes, 1598.

Goody, Jack. The Domestication of the Savage Mind, 1977.

Halverson, John. "Goody and the Implosion of the Literacy Thesis." Man, New Series, 27, no. 2 (1992): 301-317.

Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, 1982.

Oosterhoff, Richard. Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre D’Étaples, 2018.

Phillips, Edward. The new world of words, 1696.

Salinero, Gregorio. "L'octogone des listes." In Le temps des listes: Représenter, savoir et croir à l'époque moderne, edited by Gregorio Salinero and Miguel Ángel Melón Jiménez, 2018.

Shoemaker, R. B. "The London ‘Mob’ in the Early Eighteenth Century." The Journal of British Studies 26 no. 3 (1987):  273-304

Webster, Anthony. "Keeping the Word: On Orality and Literacy (with a Sideways Glance at Navajo." Oral Tradition 21, no. 2 (2006): 295-304.

Werbin, Kenneth. The List Serves: Population Control and Power, 2017.

Young, Liam. List Cultures: knowledge and poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed, 2017.

 

Ketelaar documents

Bertrand, Paul. Documenting the Everyday in Medieval Europe: the Social Dimensions of a Writing Revolution 1250-1350. Transl. Graham Edwards, 2019.

Clanchy, Michael T. From Memory to written record: England 1066-1307, 2nd. ed. 1993.

Clark, Peter, ed. The Oxford handbook of cities in world history, 2013.

Ketelaar, Eric. “Records out and archives in: early modern cities as creators of records and as communities of archives.” Archival science 10 (3) (2010): 201-210.

Meijer, Albert. “Datapolis: A public governance perspective on ‘smart cities’.” Perspectives on public management and governance, 1 (3) (2018): 195–206.

Vismann, Cornelia. Akten. Medientechnik und Recht, 2000; shortened English edition:  Files. Law and media technology, 2008.

 

Kirschenbaum computers

Abbate, Janet. Recoding Gender, 2012.

Berkeley, Edmund. Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, 1949.

Bernhardt, Chris. Turing’s Vision, 2016.

Campbell-Kelley, Martin, et al. Computer, 2014.

Ceruzzi, Paul. A History of Modern Computing, 1998.

Ceruzzi, Paul. Computing, 2012.

Haigh, Thomas, et al. ENIAC in Action, 2016.

Hicks, Marie. Programmed Inequality, 2017.

Hillis, W. Daniel. The Pattern on the Stone, 1998.

Nisan, Noam and Shimon Schocken. The Elements of Computing Systems, 2005.

Kivelson petitions

Kivelson, Valerie, ‘“Muscovite Citizenship”:  Rights without Freedom,’ Journal of Modern History 74:3 (2002): 465-89.

Sarat, Austin, “Memorializing Miscarriages of Justice: Clemency Petitions in the Killing State,” Law & Society Review 42:1 (2008):183-224.

Liang, Linxia, “Rejection or Acceptance: Finding Reasons for the Late Qing Magistrate's Comments on Land and Debt Petitions,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68,no. 2 (2005): 276-294.

Wigginton, Caroline, “Extending Root and Branch: Community Regeneration in the Petitions of Samson Occom,” Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, 20:4 (2008):24-55.

Zaret, David, "Petitions and the Invention" of Public Opinion in the English Revolution,” American Journal of Sociology 101:6 (1996): 1497-1555.

 

Krajewski cards

Alberto Cevolini, “Where Does Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index Come From?” Erudition and the Republic of Letters 3 no. 4 (2018), 390-420;

Gessner, Konrad. Bibliotheca Universalis, sive Catalogus omnium scriptorum locupletissimus, in tribus linguis, Latina, Graeca, & Hebraica, 1545.

Gessner, Konrad. Pandectarum sive Partitionum universalium, 1548.

Kayser, Albrecht Christoph. Ueber die Manipulation bey der Einrichtung einer Bibliothek und der Verfertigung der Bücherverzeichnisse nebst einem alphabetischen Kataloge aller von Johann Jakob Moser einzeln herausgekommener Werke – mit Ausschluß seiner theologischen, und einem Register, 1790.

Krajewski, Markus. “In Formation. Aufstieg und Fall der Tabelle als Paradigma der Datenverarbeitung.” Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, vol. 3 (2007): 37-55.

Krajewski, Markus. Paper Machines. About Cards & Catalogs, 1548–1929, 2011.

Krajewski, Markus. “Paper as Passion. Niklas Luhmann and His Card Index.” In ‘Raw Data’ Is an Oxymoron, edited by Lisa Gitelman, 2013.

Krajewski, Markus. “Cards.” In The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies, edited by Timon Beyes, Robin Holt and Claus Pias, 2019 (in press.

Laird, Pamela Walker, Advertising progress. American business and the rise of consumer marketing, 1998.

Luhmann, Niklas. Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft, 1998.

Moser, Johann Jacob. Vortheile vor Canzleyverwandte und Gelehrte in Absicht auf Akten-Verzeichnisse, Auszüge und Register, desgleichen auf Sammlungen zu künfftigen Schrifften und würckliche Ausarbeitung derer Schrifften, 1773.

Schmidt, Johannes F. K. “Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine.” In Forgetting Machines. Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe, edited by Alberto Cevolini, 2016.

Wellisch, Hans H. “How to Make an Index – 16th-Century Style: Conrad Gessner on Indexes and Catalogs.” International Classification 8 no. 1 (1981): 10-15.

 

Lauer surveilling

Bouk, Dan. “The History and Political Economy of Personal Data over the Last Two Centuries in Three Acts,” Osiris 32 (2017): 85-106.

 

Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. Sorting Things Out, 1999.

Caplan, Jane, and John Torpey, eds. Documenting Individual Identity, 2001.

Cole, Simon. Suspect Identities, 2002.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish, 1977.

Giddens, Anthony. A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism, Vol. 2, 1985.

Groebner, Valentin. Who Are You?, 2007.

Hacking, Ian, “Making Up People.” In Reconstructing Individualism, edited by Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, and David E. Wellbery, 1986.

Higgs, Edward, The Information State in England, 2003.

Igo, Sarah E. The Known Citizen, 2018.

Lauer, Josh. “Surveillance History and the History of New Media,” New Media & Society 14, no. 4 (2011): 566-582.

Lyon, David. “Situating Surveillance: History, Technology, Culture.” In Histories of State Surveillance in Europe and Beyond, edited by Kees Boersma, Rosamunde Van Brakel, Chiara Fonio, and Pieter Wagnenaar, 2014.

Monahan, Torin, and David Murakami Wood, eds. Surveillance Studies: A Reader, 2018.

Robertson, Craig. The Passport in America: A History of a Document, 2010.

Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State, 1998.

Szreter, Simon, and Keith Breckenridge, eds. Registration and Recognition, 2012.

Zuboff, Shoshana. Surveillance Capitalism, 2018.

Lemberg information policy

Lemberg

Bayly, C. A. Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870, 1996.

 

Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period, 2006.

Darnton, Robert. The Literary Underground of the Old Regime, 1982.

De Weerdt, Hilde. Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China, 2015.

Frankel, Oz. States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain and the United States, 2006.

Galison, Peter. “Removing Knowledge.” Critical Inquiry 31, no. 1 (2004): 229-243.

Headrick, Daniel. The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945, 1991.

Lebovic, Sam. Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America, 2016.

Lemberg, Diana. Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media, 2019.

Morozov, Evgeny. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, 2011.

Nunberg, Geoffrey. “Farewell to the Information Age.” In The Future of the Book, edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, 1996.

Roberts, Margaret E. Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall, 2018.

Schudson, Michael. The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975, 2015.

Soll, Jacob. The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System, 2009.

Starr, Paul. The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications, 2004.

Tworek, Heidi. “How Not to Build a World Wireless Network: German-British Rivalry and Visions of Global Communications in the Early Twentieth Century.” History and Technology 32, no. 2 (2016): 178-200.

 

 

Lemov cybernetics/feedback

Bateson, Gregory. Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View, 1958.

Bowker, Geoffrey. “How to Be Universal: Some Cybernetic Strategies, 1943-1970” in Social Studies of Science 23, no. 1(1993), 107-27.

Conway, Flo and Siegelman, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics, 2009.

DuPuy, Jean-Pierre, The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cybernetics, 1994.

Gerovitch, Slava. From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics, 2003.

Heims, Steve J., The Cybernetics Group, 1991.

Medina, Eden, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile, 2011.

Mindell, David, Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, 2002.

Northrop, F.S.C., “The Neurological and Behavioristic Psychological Basis of the Ordering of Society by Means of Ideas,” Science, Vol. 107 (April 23, 1948), 411-417, p. 413.

O’Neill, Cathy, Weapons of Math Destruction, 2016.

Rosenblueth, Arturo, Julian Bigelow and Norbert Wiener, “Behavior, Purpose and Teleology,” Philosophy of Science 10 (1943), 18-24.

Thompson, Clive, 'Dark Hero of the Information Age': The Original Computer Geek, New York Times, March 20, 2005.

Wiener, Norbert, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, 1954.

Linstrum political reporting

Barker, Hannah, and Simon Burrows, eds. Press, Politics, and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820, 2007.

 

Chalaby, Jean K. The Invention of Journalism, 1998.

Hampton, Mark. Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.


Popkin, Jeremy D. News and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac’s Gazette de Leyde, 1989.

Popkin, Jeremy D. News and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac’s Gazette de Leyde, 1989.

Vernon, James. Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815-1867, 1993.

Ward, Stephen. The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond, 2015

Long manuals

Córdoba, Ricardo, ed. Craft Treatises and Handbooks, 2013.

Creager, Angela N. H., Mathias Grote and Elaine Leong, eds. Knowledge by the Book: Manuals in the History of Science, Themes: British Journal for the History of Science 5 (2020).

Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane, Valérie Nègre, Delphine Spicq, and Koen Vermeir, eds. Le livre technique avant le xxe siècle : À l’échelle du monde. CNRS Alpha, 2019. http://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/27664.

Hoffmann, Richard C. Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages, 1997.

Leong, Elaine. Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, 2018.

Long, Pamela O. Openness, Secrecy, Authorship, 2001.

Raymond, Joad, ed. The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture. I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660, 2011.

Schäfer, Dagmar. The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, 2011.

Schotte, Margaret. Sailing School, 2019.

Smith, Pamela H. The Body of the Artisan, 2004.

Lynch reference books

Blair, Ann. Too Much To Know: managing scholarly information before the modern age, 2010.

Campbell-Kelly, M., M. Croarken, R. Flood, and E. Robson, eds. The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets, 2003.

Collison, Robert. Encyclopaedias: Their History throughout the Ages, 1966.

Considine, John. Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage, 2008.

Katz, Bill, ed. Cuneiform to Computer: A History of Reference Sources, 1998.

Landau, Sidney I. Dictionaries: The Art & Craft of Lexicography, 1984.

McArthur, Tom. Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computer, 1986.

Stockwell, Foster. A History of Information Storage and Retrieval, 2001.

Stray, Christopher, ed. Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future, 2010.

Yeo, Richard R. Encyclopaedic Visions, 2001.

Maclean book sales catalogues

De l’argile au nuage. Une archéologie des catalogues (IIe millénaire av. J.-C. – XXIe siècle), edited by Frédéric Barbier, Thierry Dubois and Yann Sordet, 2015.

 

Bücherkataloge als buchgeschichtliche Quellen in der frühen Neuzeit, ed. Reinhart Wittmann, 1984.

Burger, Konrad. Buchhändleranzeigen des 15. Jahrhunderts, 1907.

Christian Coppens and Angela Nuovo, ‘Printed catalogues of booksellers as a source for the history of the book trade’, JILS.it, 9 (2018), 166-178. DOI 10.4403/jlis.it-12465

Engelsing, Rolf. Deutsche Verlegerplakate des 17 Jahrhunderts, 1971.

Jensen, Kristian. Revolution and the Antiquarian Book: Reshaping the Past, 1780-1815, 2011.

Mandelbrote, Giles. ‘The first printed library catalogue? A German Doctor’s library of the sixteenth century and its place in the history of the distribution of books by catalogue’, in Le biblioteche private come paradigmo bibliografico. Atti del convegno internationale, Roma 2008, ed. Fiametta Sabba, 2008, pp. 295-311.

Pollard, Graham, and Albert Ehrman, The distribution of books by catalogue from the invention of printing to A.D.1800, based on material in the Broxbourne library, 1965,

Richter, Günter. Verlegerplakate des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts bis zum Beginn des Dreissigjährigen Krieges, 1965.

Granata, Giovanna, and Angela Nuovo, eds. Selling and collecting: printed book sale catalogues and private libraries in early modern Europe, 2018.

Taylor, Archer. Book catalogues: their varieties and uses, revised by W.P. Barlow, 1987.

Marcus censorship

Clegg, Cyndia Susan. Press Censorship in Elizabethan England, 1997.

 

Darnton, Robert. Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature, 2014.

Finocchiaro, Maurice A., ed. The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History, 1989.

Fragnito, Gigliola, ed. Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy, 2001.

Galison, Peter. “Removing Knowledge: The Logic of Modern Censorship.” In Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, edited by Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger, 37-54. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.

Grendler, Paul F. The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1977.

Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, 2009.

Kornicki, Peter F. The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century. Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Fünfte Abteilung, Japan ; 7. Bd. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 1998: 320-362.

Marcus, Hannah. “Bibliography and Book Bureaucracy: Reading Licenses and the Circulation of Prohibited Books in Counter-Reformation Italy.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Dec. 2016): 433-457.

Hannah Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy, forthcoming 2020

Patterson, Annabel M. Censorship and Interpretation: The Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England, 1984.

Roberts, Margaret E. Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall, 2018.

 

McGuirl sales catalogs

Uriel Heyd, Reading Newspapers: Press and Public in Eighteenth-Century Britain and America, 2012.

Louis Hyman, “How Sears Helped Oppose Jim Crow,” New York Times, October 20, 2018.

John McMillian, Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America, 2011.

Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, 2006.

James L. W. West III, “The Expansion of the National Book Trade System,” in A History of the Book in America, vol. 4, Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 18801940, edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway, 2009.

Michael Winship, “The Rise of a National Book Trade System in the United States,” in A History of the Book in America, vol. 4, Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 18801940, edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway, 2009.

McKitterick letterpress

Goldman, Paul. The History of Illustration and its technologies in Oxford Companion to the Book, ed Michael Suarez, 2010.

 

Huss, Richard E. The Development of Printers’ Mechanical Typesetting Methods, 1973.

McKitterick, David. Print, Manuscript, and the Search for Order, 1450-1830, 2003.

Southall, Richard. Printer's type in the twentieth century : manufacturing and design methods, 2005.

Twyman, Michael. The British Library guide to printing : history and techniques, 1998.

 

Mokros documentary authority

Michael K. Buckland, “What Is a Document?,” Journal of the American Society of Information Science 48 (1997): 804–9. 

 

Peter Crooks and Timothy Parsons, eds., Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century, 2016.

 

Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, 2014. 

 

Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, 2012. 

 

Emily Mokros, The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China, State News and Political Authority. Forthcoming University of Washington Press, 2021.

 

Müller merchants

Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid, The social life of information, 2000.

 

Carlos, Ann M. and Stephen Nicholas, “Agency Problems in Early Chartered Companies. The Case of the Hudson’s Bay Company”, The Journal of Economic History, no. 4 (1990): 853–875

Coase, Ronald, The Firm, the Market, and the Law, 1988.

Hobart, Michael, and Zachary Schiffman, Information Ages. Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, 2000.

Kaukiainen, Yrjö, “Shrinking the world: Improvements in the speed of information transmission, c. 1820–1870.” European Review of Economic History, 5, no. 1 (2001): 1–28.

Laakso, Seija-Riitta, Across the oceans: development of overseas business information transmission 1815-1875, 2007.

McCusker, John J., “The Demise of Distance: The Business Press and the Origins of the Information Revolution in the Early Modern Atlantic World.” The American Historical Review, 110, no. 2 (2005): 295–321.

McCusker, John J., and Cora Gravensteijn, The Beginnings of Commercial and Financial Journalism: The Commodity Price Currents, Exchange Rate Currents, and Money Currents of Early Modem Europe, 1991.

Müller, Leos, and Jari Ojala, eds., Information flows: new approaches in the historical study of business information, 2007.

Müller, Simone M., Wiring the world: the social and cultural creation of global telegraph networks, 2016.

North, Douglass C., Institutions, institutional change and economic performance, 1990.

Origo, Iris, Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City, 1993.

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, ed., Merchant networks in the early modern world, 1450-1800, 1996.

Nelles libraries

Andrew Abbot, “Library Research Infrastructure for Humanistic and Social Scientific Scholarship in the Twentieth Century,” in Social Knowledge in the Making, edited by Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont, 2011. 

 

Alistair Black, Simon Pepper, and Kaye Bagshaw, Books, Buildings and Social Engineering: Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present, 2009. 

 

John Willis Clark, The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century, 1901. 

 

Eric Garberson, “Libraries, Memory and the Space of Knowledge,” Journal of the History of Collections 18, no. 2 (2006): 105–36. 

 

David Kaser, The Evolution of the American Academic Library Building, 1997. 

 

Catherine Minter, “Systematic or Mechanical Arrangement? Revisiting a Debate in German Library Science, 1790–1914,” Libri 67, no. 3 (2017): 193–203.

 

Felix Reichmann, “The Catalog in European Libraries,” Library Quarterly 34, no. 1 (1964): 34–56. 

 

Wayne A. Wiegand, “The ‘Amherst Method’: The Origins of the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme,” Libraries and Culture 33, no. 2 (1998): 175–94.

Nunberg information, dis- and mis-information

Benkler, Yochai, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts. Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics. 2018.

 

Brown, Richard D. The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870, 1997.

Marwick, Alice and Rebecca Lewis. “Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online.” Research Report, Data & Society. 2017.

Schudson, Michael. The Good Citizen: A History of American Civil Life. 1998.

Terdiman, Richard. Discourse/Counter-Discourse, 1985.

Oreglia globalization

Buckland, Michael K. "Information as thing." Journal of the American Society for information science 42, no. 5 (1991): 351-360.

 

Castells, Manuel. The rise of the network society. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Cherlet, Jan. "Epistemic and technological determinism in development aid." Science, Technology, & Human Values 39, no. 6 (2014): 773-794.

China’s 2006-2020 National Informatization Development Plan: https://www.china.org.cn/archive/2006-05/12/content_1168043.htm

Elman, Benjamin A. A cultural history of modern science in China. Harvard University Press, 2009.

Liu, Xiao. "Magic Waves, Extrasensory Powers, and Nonstop Instantaneity: Imagining the Digital beyond Digits." Grey Room(2016): 42-69.

Nardi, Bonnie, and Yong Ming Kow. "Digital imaginaries: How we know what we (think we) know about Chinese gold farming." First Monday 15, no. 6 (2010.

Srinivasan, Janaki, Megan Finn, and Morgan Ames. "Information determinism: The consequences of the faith in information." The Information Society 33, no. 1 (2017): 13-22.

 

Pettegree newspapers

Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril, and Paul Goring, and Christine Watson, Travelling chronicles : news and newspapers from the early modern period to the eighteenth century (Leiden: Brill, 2018)

Filippo De Vivo, Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

Guarneri, Julia. Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.

John, Richard and Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, Making News: The Political Economy of Journalism from the Glorious Revolution to the Internet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)

Andrew Pettegree, The Invention of the News: How World Came to Know About Itself (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2014).

Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree, The Dutch Republic and the Birth of Modern Advertising (Leiden: Brill, 2020)

 

Pietruska forecasting

Andersson, Jenny. The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post-Cold War Imagination, 2018.

 

Andersson, Jenny and Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, eds., The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future, 2015.

Anderson, Katharine. Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology, 2005.

Clarke, I. F. The Pattern of Expectation, 1644-2001, 1979.

Friedman, Walter A. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters, 2014.

Pietruska, Jamie L. Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America, 2017.

 

 

Piper digitization

Bod, Rens, Jennifer Hay, and Stefanie Jannedy. Probabilistic Linguistics, 2003.

 

Cheriet, Mohamed. Nawwaf Kharma, Cheng-Lin Liu, and Ching Y. Suen, eds., Character Recognition Systems, 2007.

Cordell, Ryan. "Q i-jtb the Raven: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously," Book History 20 (2017): 188-225.

Doermann, David, and Karl Tombre, eds., Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition, 2014.

Flanders, Julia, and Fotis Jannidis, eds., The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text-Based Resources, 2018.

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