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The Specter of the Archive with Nicholas Popper

Thu, Mar 28

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Specter of the Archive

Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Nicholas Popper’s new book The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain.

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The Specter of the Archive with Nicholas Popper
The Specter of the Archive with Nicholas Popper

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Mar 28, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

Specter of the Archive

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March 28 at 10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 5pm GMT

Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Nicholas Popper’s new book The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain. This event will take place online.

“An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive, Nicholas Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with the same problem—how to deal with too much information at their fingertips.”

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Nicholas Popper is associate professor of history at William & Mary.  He specializes in early modern British history with a particular focus on intersections between intellectual and political culture and on the transmission of political and scholarly practices across Britain, continental Europe, and the Atlantic World. In addition to The Specter of the Archive, he is the author of Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance (Chicago, 2012).  He has also co-edited, along with Anthony Grafton and William Sherman, Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others (London, 2024); and, with Ann Blair, New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship (Baltimore, 2021). He is currently the Editor of Books at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.

Amanda E. Herbert is Associate Professor of Early Modern Americas in the History Department at Durham University, and is a historian of the body: gender and sexuality; health and wellness; food, drink, and appetite. She is the author of Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain (Yale, 2014) winner of the Best Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Her grant-funded collaborative projects have been supported by the AHRC, SSHRC, and the Mellon Foundation, and include the $1.5 million Folger Shakespeare Library Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. She writes for all audiences, and has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, and Gastro Obscura.

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