Technology and Globalisation Networks of Experts in World History /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pretel, David (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Camprubí, Lino (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; History.; Technology-History.; Industrial organization.; Evolutionary economics.; Economic policy.; Economic History.; History of Science.; History of Technology.; Industrial Organization.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.

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 inte...