The Routledge Handbook of Information History offers a definitive, inclusive and far-reaching study of how information practices have influenced, and been influenced by, society, politics, culture and technology over past millennia. It showcases a diverse collection of over forty international contributors who explore information practices from antiquity to the contemporary world, with geographical coverage ranging across Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as North and South America. From the Contents: 14. Trading Factories as Information Factories: Aspects of Information Management in the Dutch East India Company’s Japanese Factory, 1609-1623 (Gabor Szommer).