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Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s

Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s

Rodogno, Davide
Struck, Bernhard
Vogel, Jakob

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Contemporary European History, Book 14

General World HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1782383581
ISBN13: 9781782383581
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Dec 1 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the second half of the nineteenth century a new kind of social and cultural actor came to the fore: the expert. During this period complex processes of modernization, industrialization, urbanization, and nation-building gained pace, particularly in Western Europe and North America. These processes created new forms of specialized expertise that grew in demand and became indispensible in fields like sanitation, incarceration, urban planning, and education. Often the expertise needed stemmed from problems at a local or regional level, but many transcended nation-state borders. Experts helped shape a new transnational sphere by creating communities that crossed borders and languages, sharing knowledge and resources through those new communities, and by participating in special events such as congresses and world fairs.

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