E-Book, Englisch, 394 Seiten, eBook
Pretel / Camprubí Technology and Globalisation
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-75450-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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Networks of Experts in World History
E-Book, Englisch, 394 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
ISBN: 978-3-319-75450-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
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Chapter 1. Technological Encounters: Locating Experts in the History of Globalisation.- Chapter 2. The Historical Roots of Modern Bridges: China Engineers as Global Actors.- Chapter 3.- Indigenous Resistance and the Technological Imperative: From Chemistry in Birmingham to Camphor Wars in Formosa, 1860s–1914.- Chapter 4. Global Engineers: Professional Trajectories of the Graduates of the École des arts et manufactures (1830s-1920s).- Chapter 5. Re-designing Africa: Railways and Globalisation in the Era of the New Imperialism.- Chapter 6. The Global Rise of Patent Expertise during the Late Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 7. Networks of American Experts in the Caribbean: The Harvard Botanic Station in Cuba (1898-1930).- Chapter 8. Hector Vera: Breaking Global Standards: The Anti-Metric Crusade of American Engineer.- Chapter 9. Statistics as Service to Democracy: Experimental Design and the Dutiful American Scientist.- Chapter 10. The bona fide contracts: An Engineering Company in Wartime Shanghai, 1937-1945.- Chapter 11. Dutch Irrigation Engineers and Their (Post-) Colonial Irrigation Networks.- Chapter 12. Engineers and Scientist as Commercial Agents of the Spanish Nuclear Program.- Chapter 13. Engineers’ Diplomacy: The South American Petroleum Institute, 1941-1950s.- Chapter 14. Epilogue: Technology’s Activists and Global Dynamics.