The Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World Jeremy Black
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- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication date:
- 09 Jun 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300208672
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 504 pages: 235 x 156mm
- Sales territories:
- World
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Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country’s ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive perspective, focusing on the relationship between information and society and demonstrating how the understanding and use of information have been the primary factors in the development and character of the modern age.
“He is the most industrious historian of all time. The Power of Knowledge is his 108th book. It is apposite that he should quote Sherlock Holmes on his brother Mycroft: 'All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.' Black is the Mycroft of historiography.”—Daniel Johnson, The Times
“Jeremy Black’s new book is a massive compendium of facts that suggestively interrogates the entanglement between information and western modernity. . .His impressive survey takes in censuses, literary rates, medicine, time-keeping, trains, telegraphs and space-shuttles, the Holocaust, the Star Wars films, and, of course, the internet.”—Dr Aileen Fyfe, BBC History Magazine
‘Like a latterday Captain Cook, or Darwin on the Beagle perhaps, Jeremy Black evidently relishes the chance to journey to faraway places of the mind and to observe, collate and systematise all he has learned for the benefit of the rest of us.’—Daniel Snowman, History Today
‘I would recommend Black’s monumental documentation of the role of information in shaping the birth and rise of modern society as a crucial contribution to some of the key questions of our time.’
Arun Bala, OUP American Historical Review.
“Fluency and wide-ranging erudition are conspicuously on display in The Power of Knowledge, an ambitious, synoptic, "big idea" book that is likely to extend the frontiers of Mr. Black's audience in this country.”—Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal
"In his elucidation of topics ranging from navigation and cartography of the late medieval and early modern eras to the scientific revolution and Enlightenment, printing technology and the evolving role of media in state and society, to contemporary subjects such as quantum theory, space exploration, and artificial intelligence, Black shows how information has shaped power and politics around the globe in the modern era."—A.C. Stanley, CHOICE
"From the perspective of historical geography this is a useful and fascinating take on history."—Peter J. Hugill, Journal of Historical Geography
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