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Building Europe on expertise : innovators, organizers, networkers / Helmuth Trischler, museum director and professor, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany and Martin Kohlrausch, associate professor, KU Leuven, Belgium.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trischler, Helmuth, author.
- Kohlrausch, Martin, author.
- Series:
- Making Europe : Technology and Transformations, 1850-2000
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elite (Social sciences)--Europe.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Social engineering--Europe.
- Social engineering.
- Technology--Social aspects--Europe--History.
- Technology.
- Science--Social aspects--Europe--History.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects.
- History.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- "Focusing on experts in technology and science, Building Europe on Expertise delivers a new reading of European history. The authors show that modern Europe was built by experts using their unique knowledge to shape societies, set political agendas, and establish collaborations which proved decisive in integrating the continent"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Cultivating experts, ordering knowledge
- part 2. Endangered experts, new social orders
- part 3. Cooperating experts, building institutions.
- ISBN:
- 9780230308053
- 0230308058
- OCLC:
- 852224799
- Online:
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