Encyclopedias, Information Overload, and the Intellectual Division of Labor in Early America.

This article examines the history of encyclopedias in North America and Britain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to foreground wider shifts in knowledge formation and organization caused by a growing perception of information overload. Tracing the Enlightenment manifestations of this...

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Publicado en:	Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 562 - 613
Autor principal:	Pethers, Matthew
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Pennsylvania Press Fall2024
Materias:	Information overload Division of labor Information resources management Encyclopedias & dictionaries Eighteenth century Wikipedia Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 Electronic encyclopedias
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