Ebook: Information beyond borders: international cultural and intellectual exchange in the Belle Époque

1. Of artifacts and organs : world telegraph cables and Ernst Kapp's philosophy of technology / Frank Hartmann -- 2. The formation of global news agencies, 1859-1914 / Volker Barth -- 3. "In the pursuit of colonial intelligence" : the archive and identity in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century / Heather Gaunt -- 4. Divided space -- divided science? : closing and transcending scientific boundaries in Central Europe between 1860 and 1900 / Jan Surman -- 5. Scholarly networks and international congresses : the orientalists before the First World War / Paul Servais -- 6. Organizing a global idiom : Esperanto, Ido and the World Auxiliary Language Movement before the First World War / Markus Krajewski -- 7. Beyond Babel : Esperanto, Ido and Louis Couturat's pursuit of an international scientific language / Fabian de Kloe -- 8. 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 -- 9. Sociology in Brussels, organicism and the idea of a world society in the period before the First World War / Wouter Van Acker -- 10. Collecting paper : Die Brücke, the bourgeois interior, and the architecture of knowledge / Nader Vossoughian -- 11. Alfred H. Fried and the challenges for "scientific pacifism" in the Belle Époque / Daniel Laqua -- 12. Global government through science : Pieter Eijkman's plans for world capital in The Hague / Geert Somsen -- 13. Dynamics of networks and decimal classification systems, 1905-35 / Charles van den Heuvel -- 14. The great classification battle of 1910 : a tale of "blunders and bizzareries" at the Melbourne Public Library / Mary Carroll and Sue Reynolds -- 15. From display to data : the commercial museum and the beginnings of business information, 1870-1914 / Dave Muddiman -- 16. An information management tool for dismantling barriers in early multinational corporations : the staff magazine in Britain before World War I / Alistair Black.