Information: A Historical Companion
Ed. Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton
Princeton University Press (2021)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179544/information
0. Introduction—Paul Duguid p. vii
1. Premodern Regimes and Practices—Anthony Grafton p. 3
2. Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World—Elias Muhanna p. 21
3. Information in Early Modern East Asia—Devin Fitzgerald and Carla Nappi p. 38
4. Information in Early Modern Europe—Ann Blair p. 61
5. Information Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century—John-Paul Ghobrial p. 86
6. Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, ca. 1400-1700—Randolph C. Head p. 104
7. Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era—Will Slauter p.128
8. Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century—Craig Robertson p. 152
9. Nineteenth-century Media Technologies —Lisa Gitelman and Tom Mullaney p. 174
10. Networking: Information Circles the Modern World —Jeremy Adelman p. 190
11. Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion from the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising— Richard R. John and Heidi Tworek p. 211
12. Communication, Computation, and Information—Paul Duguid p. 238
13.Search—Daniel Rosenberg p. 259
Short articles
The Companion includes about 100 short articles of between 1,500 and 4,500 words, addressing specific topics. They are arranged alphabetically and also appear in a list by category:
Concepts
cybernetics/feedback—Rebecca Lemov p. 382
data—Daniel Rosenberg p. 387
documentary authority—Emily Mokros p. 413
error—Kenneth Haynes p. 424
governance—Arndt Brendecke and Benjamin Steiner p. 470
information, disinformation, misinformation—Geoffrey Nunberg p. 496
information policy—Diana Lemberg p. 503
intellectual property—Lionel Bently p. 514
knowledge—Peter Burke p. 538
media—Richard Popp p. 601
networks—John Brewer p. 620
privacy—Adrian Johns p. 686
public sphere—Brian Cowan p. 713
publicity/publication—Sean Gurd p. 718
Formats
books—James Raven p. 333
databases—David Sepkoski p. 392
diagrams—Matthew Daniel Eddy p. 397
files—Craig Robertson p. 449
horoscopes—Monica Azzolini p. 486
journals—Melinda Baldwin p. 530
layout and script in letters—Hwisang Cho p. 551
newsletters—Joad Raymond p. 628
newspapers—Andrew Pettegree p. 633
notebooks—Richard Yeo p. 636
khipu—Sabine Hyland p. 534
scrolls and rolls—Anthony Grafton p. 764
Genres
albums—Elizabeth Yale p. 294
bibliography—Johanna Drucker p. 326
book sales catalogs—Ian Maclean p. 339
cases —Lauren Kassell p. 358
inventories—Daniel Lord Smail p. 527
letters—Paul Botley p. 563
lists—Vera Keller p. 579
manuals—Pamela O. Long p. 589
maps—Surekha Davies p. 594
memos—JoAnne Yates p. 608
petitions—Valerie Kivelson p. 652
reference books—Jack Lynch p. 746
registers—Randolph C. Head p. 750
sales catalogs—Erin McGuirl p. 754
sermons—Ann Blair p. 772
social media—Siva Vaidhyanathan p. 777
Objects
bells—Alexander Fisher p. 323
cards—Markus Krajewski p. 353
coins—Alan Stahl p. 370
government documents—Eric Ketelaar p. 479
inscriptions—William Stenhouse p. 508
money—Niv Horesh p. 616
People
archivists—Markus Friedrich p. 312
diplomats/spies—Paul M. Dover p. 407
merchants—Leos Müller p. 611
postal customers—David Henkin p. 673
professors—Christian Flow p. 694
proofreaders—Paolo Sachet p. 709
readers—Frederic Clark p. 728
scribes—Ann Blair p. 759
secretaries—Ann Blair p. 768
Practices
accounting—Jacob Soll p. 287
appraising—Anja-Silvia Goeing p. 304
archeological decipherment—Haun Saussy p. 308
art of memory—Lina Bolzoni (translated by Madeline McMahon) p. 318
censorship—Hannah Marcus p. 366
ethnography—Joan-Pau Rubiés p. 433
excerpting/commonplacing—Helmut Zedelmaier (translated by Ashley Gonik) p. 441
forecasting—Jamie L. Pietruska p. 452
forgery —Earle Havens p. 460
indexing—Dennis Duncan p. 491
intelligence testing—John Carson p. 523
learning—Anja-Silvia Goeing p. 555
observing—Lorraine Daston p. 641
office practices—Erin McGuirl p. 647
plagiarizing—Earle Havens p. 659
political reporting—Erik Linstrum p. 669
programming—Matthew Jones p. 703
reading against the grain—Kirsten Weld p. 736
recording—Emily Thompson p. 739
surveilling—Josh Lauer p. 790
teaching—Anja-Silvia Goeing p. 800
translating—Neil Safier p. 813
travel—Zur Shalev p. 820
Processes
commodification—John Frow p. 374
digitization—Andrew Piper p. 402
globalization—Elisa Oreglia p. 464
quantification—Dan Bouk p. 724
storage and search—Michael Buckland p. 788
Systems
bureaucracy—Peter Crooks p. 343
landscapes and cities—Alexandra Walsham p. 545
libraries and catalogs—Paul Nelles p. 567
platforms—Tarleton Gillespie p. 665
telecommunications—Daniel Headrick p. 806
Technologies
algorithms—Ted Striphas p. 298
cameras—Annie Rudd p. 349
computers—Matthew Kirschenbaum p. 379
encrypting/decrypting—William H. Sherman p. 417
letterpress—David McKitterick p. 560
lithography—Hansun Hsiung and Kathryn A. Schwartz p. 583
photocopiers—Michael Buckland p. 655
printed visuals—Susanna Berger p. 677
stereotype printing—Alexis Weedon p. 783
surveys and censuses—Sarah Igo p. 796
xylography—Bruce Rusk p. 828