Shaping the transnational sphere : experts, networks, and issues from the 1840s to the 1930s / / edited by Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck and Jakob Vogel

• Pubblicazione: New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.09/034
• Soggetto topico: Transnationalism - History; Expertise - Social aspects - History; International agencies - History; International cooperation - History; Intellectual cooperation - History; Social planning - International cooperation - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): RodognoDavide <1972->; StruckBernhard; VogelJakob
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: title page; Imprint; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Experts; 1 Professionalism or Proselytism? Catholic 'Internationalists' in the Nineteenth Century; 2 Sanitizing the City; 3 Policy Communities and Exchanges across Borders; 4 The Rise of Coordinated Action for Children in War and Peace; Part II Networks; 5 Building a Transnational Network of Social Reform in the Nineteenth Century; 6 The Politics of Expertise; 7 The Road from Damascus; 8 From Peace Advocacy to International Relations Research; Part III Issues ; 9 Transnational Cooperation and Criminal Policy10 International Congresses of Education and the Circulation of Pedagogical Knowledge in Western Europe, 1876-1910; 11 From Transnational Reformist Network to International Organization; 12 Shaping Poland; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Shaping the transnational sphere
• ISBN: 1-78238-359-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460158203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in contemporary European history ; ; Volume 14.