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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  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Camprubí, Lino (1981-....). Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur


Sujet(s) : Technologie -- Société -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Mondialisation -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Histoire économique  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  337.09 (23e éd.) = Économie internationale - Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet


Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319754505. - ISBN 3319754505 (eBook). - ISBN 9783319754499

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb45785966n

Notice n° :  FRBNF45785966 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)



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

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