Information beyond Borders : International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époque / edited by W. Boyd Rayward ; Alistair Black [and eighteen others], contributors.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Print version record.

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.

This book analyses the dynamics of the emerging networks of individuals, organizations, technologies and publications by which means information was exchanged across and through all kinds of borders and boundaries in this period. It extends the frame within which historical discourse about information can take place by bringing together scholars not only from different disciplines but also from different national and linguistic backgrounds. It will be of interest to scholars and students of information history and the emergence of the information society as well as to social and cultural histo.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide