Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s: 14 (Contemporary European History, 14)

by Davide Rodogno (Editor), Bernhard Struck (Editor), Davide Rodogno (Editor), Bernhard Struck (Editor), Jakob Vogel (Editor)

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  2014

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  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.