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Ann Blair is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. Paul Duguid is adjunct professor emeritus at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Anja-Silvia Goeing is professor of history of education at the University of Zurich and an associate in history at Harvard University. Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.

"A personalized reassessment of a canonical painting of revolutionary France, David’s The Death of Marat (1793), that configures it as a foundational talisman for Crow's eventual recruitment into art history. . . . Highly recommended."

• Introduction Paul DuguidAcknowledgments1 Premodern Regimes and Practices Anthony Grafton2 Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World Elias Muhanna3 Information in Early Modern East Asia Devin Fitzgerald and Carla Nappi4 Information in Early Modern Europe Ann Blair5 Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century John-Paul A. Ghobrial6 Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, circa 1400–1700 Randolph C. Head7 Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era Will Slauter8 Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century Craig Robertson9 Nineteenth-Century Media Technologies Lisa Gitelman and Thomas S. Mullaney10 Networking: Information Circles the Modern World Jeremy Adelman11 Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising Richard R. John and Heidi J. S. Tworek12 Communication, Computation, and Information Paul Duguid13 Search Daniel RosenbergGlossaryContributorsIndex