The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System (Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World)
by Jacob Soll
A historical analysis of Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret intelligence system and its influence on early modern state administration and knowledge practices.
About This Book
This book examines the development of state intelligence under Jean-Baptiste Colbert in seventeenth-century France.
It details how information gathering supported administrative control and policy decisions.
The study places Colbert's methods within the broader context of early modern European governance.
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