The Victorians and Information

ISBN-13: 9783639156775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 232 str.

Toni Weller

Opis

We are said to be living in an information world, butas early as 1853, The Times was writing of "an age ofinformation". Historical interest in our contemporaryinformation age and in the historical tools andtechniques of information processing and managementhas been the subject of much recent informationhistory scholarship. This book offers a contrast toexisting technologically driven histories of theinformation age. It explores the Victoriansrelationship with information and knowledge from asocial and cultural perspective and challenges thechronology of modern information. Using primarysource material, the book explores case studies ofindividuals as well more detailed examination ofetiquette books, periodicals, and the Channel Tunnelpanics of the 1880s. In "The Victorians andInformation", Dr Toni Weller argues that thenineteenth century formed the crux point betweenpre-modern, and what we would now recognise asmodern, conceptualisations of information. This bookwill be of interest to historians, informationscholars and students, as well as anyone with a moregeneral curiosity in the social and cultural historyof our contemporary information world.

O autorze

Dr Toni Weller was educated at Cambridge University and City
University, London. She is a Senior Lecturer in History at De
Montfort University, Leicester and an Honorary Fellow, Department
of Information Science, City University, London. She is also the
editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal "Library &
Information History".