Information beyond borders : international cultural and intellectual exchange in the Belle Époque / edited by W. Boyd Rayward.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2014]
  • ©2014
Description
xvi, 318 pages ; 24 cm

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Editor
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Of artifacts and organs : world telegraph cables and Ernst Kapp's philosophy of technology / Frank Hartmann
  • The formation of global news agencies, 1859-1914 / Volker Barth
  • In the pursuit of colonial intelligence : the archive and identity in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century / Heather Gaunt
  • Divided space
  • divided science? : closing and transcending scientific boundaries in Central Europe between 1860 and 1900 / Jan Surman
  • Scholarly networks and international congresses : the orientalists before the First World War / Paul Servais
  • Organizing a global idiom : Esperanto, Ido and the World Auxiliary Language Movement before the First World War / Markus Krajewski
  • Beyond Babel : Esperanto, Ido and Louis Couturat's pursuit of an international scientific language / Fabian de Kloe
  • Laboratories of social thought : the transnational advocacy network of the Institut International pour la Diffusion des Expériences sociales and its Documents du Progrès / Christophe Verbruggen and Julie Carlier
  • Sociology in Brussels, organicism and the idea of a world society in the period before the First World War / Wouter Van Acker
  • Collecting paper : Die Brücke, the bourgeois interior, and the architecture of knowledge / Nader Vossoughian
  • Alfred H. Fried and the challenges for "scientific pacifism" in the belle époque / Daniel Laqua
  • Global government through science : Pieter Eijkman's plans for world capital in The Hague / Geert Somsen
  • Dynamics of networks and decimal classification systems, 1905-35 / Charles van den Heuvel
  • The great classification battle of 1910 : a tale of "blunders and bizzareries" at the Melbourne Public Library / Sue Reynolds and Mary Carroll
  • From display to data : the commercial museum and the beginnings of business information, 1870-1914 / Dave Muddiman
  • An information management tool for dismantling barriers in early multinational corporations : the staff magazine in Britain before the First World War / Alistair Black.
ISBN
  • 9781409442257 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 140944225X (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1409442268 (ebook)
  • 9781409442264 (ebook)
LCCN
2013020327
OCLC
858246312
Other standard number
  • 60001896357
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