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The Dutch comptoir as information centre

Ketelaar, Eric

Archival Science, 2018-12, Vol.18 (4), p.333-341 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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The Dutch comptoir as information centre
Autor: Ketelaar, Eric
Assuntos: 17th century ; Anthropology ; Archival studies ; Archives & records ; Business ; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities ; Cultural and Media Studies ; Cultural Heritage ; Early modern period ; Information management ; Information Storage and Retrieval ; Library Science ; Literature ; Original Paper ; Plantations ; Social history ; Women
É parte de: Archival Science, 2018-12, Vol.18 (4), p.333-341
Descrição: While sitting in their comptoir (office), merchants in early modern Holland were able to manage their plantations in the West Indies or, nearby, their seigniories in the Netherlands because they could make use of records spanning space and time. The merchants knew that information was not only instrumental in running their own business, but was also effective on a larger scale in exercising knowledge, control, and power. The performative power of records—that they may make, and in fact do make a difference in status before and after—was used in the management at a distance. From the seventeenth century, women became involved in business. They got access to the office where records supported business outside the home, but as part of everyday life.
Editor: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
Idioma: Inglês

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