Information, Media and Power through the Ages (Historical Studies)

Leading Irish and international historians examine the history of information from ancient times to the present day-starting with tyrants and spies in the Greek Polis, and news and information in the papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt. In these sixteen essays new light is shed on such interrelated themes as the impact of the changing information technologies, the ideologies governing the collection and use of information, and the networks that controlled its diffusion.