Information history in the modern world: Histories of the information age

List of Figures .- Acknowledgements .- Abbreviations.- Notes on Contributors .- Introduction T.Weller.- Personal Identification as Information Flows in England, 1500-2000 E.Higgs.- Information for the Public: Information Infrastructure in the Republic of Letters B.Rayward.- Designing and Gathering Information: Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Forms P.Stiff, P.Dobraszczyk & M.Esbester.- Broadside Ballads, Almanacs and The Illustrated News: Genres and Rhetoric in the Communication of Information in Denmark, 1800-1925 L.Skouvig.- Information and Empire: The Information and Intelligence Bureaux of the Imperial Institute, London 1887-1949 D.Muddiman.- 'A Valuable Handbook of Information': The Staff Magazine in the First Half of the Twentieth Century as a Means of Information Management A.Black.- Modelling Recent Information History: The 'Banditry' of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda P.Sturges.- Rewriting History: The Information Age and the Knowable Past L.Tredinnick.- Conclusion: Information History in the Modern World T.Weller.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.