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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : Technology and globalisation [Texte électronique] : networks of experts in world history / David Pretel, Lino Camprubi, editors
Publication : Cham : Springer : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (xvii, 394 pages)
Collection : Palgrave studies in economic history
Lien à la collection : Palgrave studies in economic history (Online)
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation
since the mid-nineteenth century. It shows how engineers, scientists and other experts
have acted as globalising agents, providing many of the materials and institutional
means for world economic and technical integration. Focusing on the study of international
connections, Technology and Globalisation illustrates how expert practices have shaped
the political economies of interacting countries, entire regions and the world economy.
This title brings together a range of approaches and topics across different regions,
transcending nationally-bounded historical narratives. Each chapter deals with a particular
topic that places expert networks at the centre of the history of globalisation. The
contributors concentrate on central themes including intellectual property rights,
technology transfer, tropical science, energy production, large technological projects,
technical standards and colonial infrastructures. Many also consider methodological,
theoretical and conceptual issues. David Pretel is Research Fellow at the Centre for
Historical Studies, Colmex, The College of Mexico, Mexico. He specialises in the global
history of technology, international economic history and the intellectual history
of capitalism, with an ever-increasing interest in Latin American history. Lino Camprubí
is Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Science, UAB Barcelona, Spain.
He has been a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Germany, and a visiting lecturer at University of Chicago, USA
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Pretel, David. Éditeur scientifique
Camprubí, Lino (1981-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Technologie -- Société -- Histoire
Mondialisation -- Histoire
Histoire économique
Indice(s) Dewey :
337.09 (23e éd.) = Économie internationale - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319754505. - ISBN 3319754505 (eBook). - ISBN 9783319754499
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45785966n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45785966
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Table des matières : Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Editors and Contributors; List of Figures;
List of Tables; 1: Technological Encounters: Locating Experts in the History of Globalisation;
Globalisation(s) and the World Economy; Expert Networks, Global Technologies; Technology
and Globalisation: Four Connections; Networks of Experts in World History; 2: The
Historical Roots of Modern Bridges: China's Engineers as Global Actors; 'Engineering'
in China; The Past in the Present; Cultures and Bridges; Water, Politics and the Engineer
Hero Yu; Tensions, Compressions and Torsion: Political Arches
Conclusion3: Indigenous Resistance and the Technological Imperative: From Chemistry
in Birmingham to Camphor Wars in Formosa, 1860s-1914; Introduction; Connectivities
in a New Globalism; Bustling Proximities: Out of Birmingham; Expert Networks and Technology
Capture; Indigenous Resistance. Camphor Wars in Formosa, 1860s-1914; Technology and
the Window of Destruction; Conclusions; 4: Global Engineers: Professional Trajectories
of the Graduates of the École des Arts et Manufactures (1830s-1920s); École Centrale
des Arts et Manufactures: A Global Engineering School