Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époch

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