Information beyond borders international cultural and intellectual exchange in the Belle Époque / edited by W. Boyd Rayward, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Other author Rayward, W. Boyd, 1939-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoFarnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2014]
Descriptionxvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Information services--History. --19th century.
Information services--History. --20th century.
Documentation--History.
Information society--History.
Intellectual cooperation--History.
International cooperation--History.
Communication--Technological innovations. --History.
Globalization--History.
Culture and globalization--History.
Language, Universal--History.

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 / Mary Carroll and Sue Reynolds -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2013020327
ISBN9781409442257 (hardback : alk. paper)

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