Book ID: CBB001220119

The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System (2009)

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Soll, Jacob (Author)


University of Michigan Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xi + 277 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Dew, Nicholas (2011) Review of "The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ben S. Trotter
Rule, John C.
Vanpaemel, Geert H. W.
Tiggelen, Brigitte van
Smith, Neil
Schneider, Pablo
Journals
Seventeenth Cent. French Stud.
Renaissance Studies
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Mémoires de la Classe des sciences. Académie Royale de Belgique
History of Science
Publishers
University of California Press
Thomas Dunne Books
Springer
McGill-Queen's University Press
Louisiana State University Press
CreateSpace
Concepts
Science and government
Science and politics
Biographies
Authorities; experts
Engineering
Court sponsored science; patronage
People
Colbert, Jean Baptiste
Louis XIV, King of France
Barbié du Bocage, Jean Denis
Dyson, Freeman John
Selden, John
Roosevelt, Theodore
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
Places
France
United States
England
Russia
Italy
Belgium
Institutions
Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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