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Information and intrigue : from index cards to Dewey decimals to Alger Hiss /

In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how science itself became enmeshed with ideology and the institutions of modern liberalism. In the 1890s, the idealistic American Herbert Haviland Field es...

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Main Author: Burke, Colin B., 1936- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Series:History and foundations of information science
Subjects:
Field, Herbert Haviland, > 1868-1921.
Concilium Bibliographicum > History.
Field, Noel Haviland, > 1904-1970.
Bibliographers > Biography.
Classification > Books > Science.
Information storage and retrieval systems > Science.
Diplomats > Biography.
Information science > History.
Science > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Science and state > History > 20th century.
INFORMATION SCIENCE/General
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Library Science
HUMANITIES/History
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