Information and Power in History

Information and Power in History

Towards a Global Approach

de Jong, Wim; Nijenhuis, Ida; Gijsenbergh, Joris; van Faassen, Marijke; Sluijter, Ronald

Taylor & Francis Ltd

02/2020

290

Dura

Inglês

9781138344068

15 a 20 dias

453

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1. The potency of the human element: information and power in history; 2. Period, theme, event: locating information history in history; Theme I: Experts and influence; 3. Knowledge is power. Opening up the teaching monopoly on the art of rulership in medieval Italy; 4. Trading information. Willem Usselincx (1567-1647) in the corridors of power; 5. Electoral research, pollsters and the performative power of information about the 'public'. The Netherlands and the transatlantic connection (1945-1990); 6. From neo-corporatism to regulatory governance: interests, expertise and power in Dutch extraparliamentary governance, c. 1900-2018; Theme II: Exchange and hegemony; 7. The perils of the post road: diplomats, diplomatic couriers, and the informational fabric of early modern Europe; 8. Communication, information and power in the Dutch colonial empire: The case of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1760; 9. Unifying the country: information-gathering by the Dutch central government in the Batavian-French period (1795-1813); Theme III: Disclosure and control; 10. Sailing and secrecy. Information control and power in Dutch overseas companies in the late sixteenth - early seventeenth century; 11. Struggling for the 'right to know'. American and British attitudes towards whistle-blowers (1966-2005); 12. An optimizer of power? The political usefulness of Dutch security intelligence, 1966-1989; 13. The power struggle between the party and the public library. The crisis of public librarianship in communist Romania (1970-1989); Theme IV: Empowerment and neglect; 14. Contested law-making: mobilization for the right to information law in India, 1990-2005; 15. Carved in stone? The role of written and unwritten information in solving the Eurasian question after 1945; 16. Paper trails to private lives. The performative power of card indexes through time and space; 17. Information and power in history: a new historiographical approach?
Jan Huygen Van Linschoten;Records Continuum Model;Information in History;Compagnie Van Verre;Dutch East India Company;State Secretary;Imperial History;De Sole;Early Modern History;Van Faassen;Hakluyt Society;East Indies;whistleblowers;Oculus Pastoralis;information revolution;Information Infrastructures;top-down approach;Maurice De Hond;governance regimes;Voc's Archive;Van Netten;Li School;Round Table;RTC;Gentlemen Seventeen;Voc Ship;Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie;Official Voc;De Hond;Central Government;Information History;Independent Regulatory Authorities;Dutch Intelligence;Philip III