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02630aam a2200337 i 4500 001 DFFC16BCE97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230503010033 008 200714s2021 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020031067 020 $a 1538148544 020 $a 9781538148549 035 $a (OCoLC)1176314896 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d A7U $d YDX $d ERASA $d OCLCO $d GZT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HC79 I55 C68 2021 100 1 $a Cortada, James W., $e author. 245 10 $a Building blocks of modern society : $b history, information ecosystems, and infrastructures / $c James W. Cortada. 264 1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., $c [2021] 300 $a xi, 320 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Information history as a research topic -- How to understand information ecosystems and infrastructures in firms and industries -- Studying history as it unfolds: computing's history, 1970-2017 -- The information ecosystems of national diplomacy: Spain, 1815-1936 -- Information ecosystems of American homemakers in Madison county, Virginia, 1950-1995 -- International sales information ecosystems: IBM, 1920s-1980s -- How people and organizations learned about information: the case of computer science and its users, 1945-1975 -- Tiny information ecosystems and infrastructures: genealogists and family historians -- The case for information ecosystems and infrastructures and lessons learned. 520 $a "This book proposes a way to look at the history of information and to history as a whole that is simultaneously relevant to observers in other disciplines and familiar to historians of business, economics, sociology and technology. The author presents that advocacy in two ways: with theoretical and historiographical discussions of what information ecosystems and infrastructures are and their value for this kind of research, second, through a range of case studies applying those concepts"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Information technology $x History. 650 0 $a Information technology $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Information technology $x Economic aspects. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Cortada, James W. $t Building blocks of modern society $d Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020] $z 9781538148556 $w (DLC) 2020031068 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907012430.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DFFC16BCE97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search