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Considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. This book provides an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge.

Table of Contents
List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. A Traveling Clerk Goes to the Bookstores 2. The Library of Public Information 3. Maps Are Strange 4. Blood Right and Merit 5. The Freedom of the City 6. Cultural Custody, Cultural Literacy 7. Nation Notes Bibliography Index

Japan in Print

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    A Paperback / softback by Mary Elizabeth Berry, Anthony Grafton

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/2007
      ISBN13: 9780520254176, 978-0520254176
      ISBN10: 0520254171
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      Asian history Social and cultural history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. This book provides an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. A Traveling Clerk Goes to the Bookstores 2. The Library of Public Information 3. Maps Are Strange 4. Blood Right and Merit 5. The Freedom of the City 6. Cultural Custody, Cultural Literacy 7. Nation Notes Bibliography Index

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