The Information Master

by Jacob Soll

Soll’s work is part of a new kind of history that focuses on how archives were consciously formed as a source of argumentation for state action

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The Information Master

by Jacob Soll

Other books by Jacob Soll

Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

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Free Market: The History of an Idea
by Jacob Soll

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)