Colin Burke: 3 books
American Collegiate Populations
A Test of the Traditional View
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1982
American Collegiate Populations is an exhaustive and definitive study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. Colin B. Burke explores the questions of who went, who stayed and where they came from, presenting as answers to these questions a mass of new data...
Information and Intrigue
From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology.
In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how...
America's Information Wars
The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book narrates the development of science, sci/tech, and intelligence information systems and technologies in the United States from the beginning of World War II to the second decade of our century. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines of the 1940s created...