Technology and Globalisation

Chapter 1 Technological Encounters: Locating Experts in the History of Globalisation

Chapter 2 The Historical Roots of Modern Bridges: China’s Engineers as Global Actors

Chapter 3 Indigenous Resistance and the Technological Imperative: From Chemistry in Birmingham to Camphor Wars in Formosa, 1860s–1914

Chapter 4 Global Engineers: Professional Trajectories of the Graduates of the École des Arts et Manufactures (1830s–1920s)

Chapter 5 Re-Designing Africa: Railways and Globalization in the Era of the New Imperialism

Chapter 6 The Global Rise of Patent Expertise During the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 7 Networks of American Experts in the Caribbean: The Harvard Botanic Station in Cuba (1898–1930)

Chapter 8 Breaking Global Standards: The Anti-metric Crusade of American Engineers

Chapter 9 Statistics as Service to Democracy: Experimental Design and the Dutiful American Scientist

Chapter 10 The Bona Fide Contracts: An Engineering Company in Wartime Shanghai, 1937–1945

Chapter 11 Dutch Irrigation Engineers and Their (Post-) Colonial Irrigation Networks

Chapter 12 Engineers and Scientist as Commercial Agents of the Spanish Nuclear Programme

Chapter 14 Epilogue: Technology’s Activists and Global Dynamics