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Taking issue with authors such as Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, Edward Higgs argues that state information gathering in England over the last 500 years cannot be seen simply in terms of an expansion towards modernity, or as social control. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3J; HBJD1; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372. . 2003. 2003 ed. paperback. . . . . Codice articolo V9780333920701
There has been an enormous rise in the central state's collection of information on individuals since the sixteenth century. Historians have mined this rich seam for their own ends, but-until now-analysis of the significance of this information gatherin
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EDWARD HIGGS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Essex.
EDWARD HIGGS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Essex.
Titolo: The Information State in England: The ...
Casa editrice: Palgrave
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New