"1643-1715" . . "Knowledge management History 17th century Case studies France." . . "Spionage Frankreich Geschichte 17. Jh." . . "Frankrijk." . . "Kennisverwerving." . . "Records Political aspects France History 17th century." . . "Electronic books." . . "Archives Political aspects History 17th century France." . . "Hommes d'État France Biographies." . . "Administració pública França Història S. XVII." . . "Estadistes França S. XVII Biografia." . . "Public administration History 17th century France." . . . "The information master : Jean Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system" . . . . . . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system"@en . "The information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system" . . . "Biography"@en . . "Biography" . "Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system" . . . . . . . . "The information master Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system" . "The information master Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system"@en . . . "The information master" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "History" . . "History"@en . . . . . . . . "The Information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\"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 encyclopedic tradition lies at the very center of the rise of the modern state. This innovative book argues that Colbert's practice of collecting knowledge originated in Renaissance Italy, where merchants recognized the power to be gained from merging scholarship and trade. By connecting historical literatures -- archives, libraries, merchant techniques, and humanist pedagogy -- that have usually remained separate, Soll has created an imaginative and refreshing work.\"--Jacket." . . . . "\"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, University of Cambridge \"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning attention to detail Colbert used knowledge in the service of enhancing royal power. Jacob Soll's scholarship is impeccable and his story long overdue and compelling.\" --Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles \"Nowadays we all know that information is the key to power, and that the masters of information rule the world. Jacob Soll teaches us that Jean-Baptiste Colbert had grasped this principle three and a half centuries ago, and used it to construct a new kind of state. This imaginative, erudite, and powerfully written book re-creates the history of libraries and archives in early modern Europe, and ties them in a novel and convincing way to the new statecraft of Europe's absolute monarchs.\" --Anthony Grafton, Princeton University \"Brilliantly researched, superbly told, and timely, Soll's story is crucial for the history of the modern state.\" --Keith Baker, Stanford University When Louis XIV asked his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert--the man who was to oversee the building of Versailles and the Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as the navy, the Paris police force, and French industry--to build a large-scale administrative government, Colbert created an unprecedented information system for political power. In The Information Master, Jacob Soll shows how the legacy of Colbert's encyclopedic tradition lies at the very center of the rise of the modern state and was a precursor to industrial intelligence and Internet search engines. Soll's innovative look at Colbert's rise to power argues that his practice of collecting knowledge originated from techniques of church scholarship and from Renaissance Italy, where merchants recognized the power to be gained from merging scholarship, finance, and library science. With his connection of interdisciplinary approaches--regarding accounting, state administration, archives, libraries, merchant techniques, ecclesiastical culture, policing, and humanist pedagogy--Soll has written an innovative book that will redefine not only the history of the reign of Louis XIV and information science but also the study of political and economic history. Jacob Soll is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Publishing The Prince: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism (University of Michigan Press, 2005), and winner of the 2005 Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Soll edited a special issue of Journal of the History of Ideas titled \"The Uses of Historical Evidence in Early Modern Europe\"; has cofounded the online journal Republics of Letters; and is editor, along with Anthony Grafton and Ann Blair, of the series Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World. Jacket illustration: Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Philippe de Champaigne, 1655, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Wildenstein Foundation, Inc., 1951 (51.34). Photograph © 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Information master : Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system" . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "\"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 encyclopedic tradition lies at the very center of the rise of the modern state. This innovative book argues that Colbert's practice of collecting knowledge originated in Renaissance Italy, where merchants recognized the power to be gained from merging scholarship and trade. By connecting historical literatures -- archives, libraries, merchant techniques, and humanist pedagogy -- that have usually remained separate, Soll has created an imaginative and refreshing work.\" -- Book jacket." . . . "Vida intel·lectual." . . "1600 - 1715" . . "Knowledge management France History 17th century." . . "Government information France History 17th century." . . "Statesmen Biography France." . . "Staatsgeheimen." . . "Archives Aspect politique France Histoire 17e siècle." . . "Archivi - Organizzazione - Francia - Sec.17." . . "Politik." . . "Staatsvorming." . . "Informationsmanagement." . . "Mercantilisme." . . "Gestion des connaissances France Histoire 17e siècle." . . "Administration publique (Science) France Histoire 17e siècle." . . "Arxius." . . "Informació pública." . . "S. XVII" . . "Openbaar bestuur." . . "Herrschaft." . . "Informació pública oficial França Història S. XVII." . . "Estadistes." . . "Archives Political aspects France History 17th century." . . "Política." . . "Govern." . . "Informatiemanagement." . . "Government information History 17th century Case studies France." . . "Records Political aspects History 17th century France." . . "Statesmen History 17th century Biography France." . . "Frankreich." . . "HISTORY." . . "França" . . "França." . "Archives History 17th century Case studies France." . . "Wissensmanagement." . . "Public administration History 17th century Case studies France." . . "Gestió del coneixement." . . "Administració pública." . . . . "Jean Baptiste@Colbert*1619-1683*" . . "Records History 17th century Case studies France." . . "Knowledge management History 17th century France." . . "Government information History 17th century France." . . "Arxius Aspectes polítics França Història S. XVII." . . "Public administration France History 17th century." . . "Amministrazione pubblica - Francia - Sec.17." . . "Administration publique France 17e siècle." . . "Statesmen France Biography." . . "Geheimdienst Frankreich Geschichte 17. Jh." . . "France" . .