Information beyond borders : international cultural and intellectual exchange in the Belle Époque /: international cultural and intellectual exchange in the Belle Époque. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by W. Boyd Rayward, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• Other Names: Rayward, W. Boyd, 1939-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 001.09/034; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries; 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
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317116790; 1317116798
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.