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1 online resource (358 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; European Modernism and the Information Society: Introduction; 1 Understanding the Information Domain: The Uneasy Relations between Sociology and Cultural Studies and the Peculiar Absence of History; 2 On the Cultural and Intellectual Context of European Documentation in the Early Twentieth Century; 3 A Tale of Two Narratives: Prolegomena to an Alternative History of Library and Information Science; 4 The Role of Facts in Paul Otlet's Modernist Project of Documentation |
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5 Ferdinand van der Haeghen's Shadow on Otlet: European Resistance to the Americanized Modernism of the Office International de Bibliographie6 Towers and Globes: Architectural and Epistemological Differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook Towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums; 7 Building Society, Constructing Knowledge, Weaving the Web: Otlet's Visualizations of a Global Information Society and His Concept of a Universal Civilization; 8 'A Necessity of Our Time': Documents and Culture in Suzanne Briet's Qu'est-ce que la documentation? |
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9 Networking Knowledge before the Information Society: The Manchester Central Library (1934) and the Metaphysical-Professional Philosophy of L.S. Jast10 Documentation and Utopia: Fabian Anticipations of the Information Society; 11 Public Science in Britain and the Origins of Documentation and Information Science, 1890-1950; 12 The March of the Modern and the Reconstitution of the World's Knowledge Apparatus: H.G. Wells, Encyclopedism and the World Brain; 13 The Modern Museum in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility: Otto Neurath and the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna |
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14 Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft: An Encyclopedia in Otto Neurath's Pictorial Statistics from 193015 Visualizing Social Facts: Otto Neurath's ISOTYPE Project; 16 Paper Parasite: F.M. Feldhaus and the Historiography of Technology; 17 Roots of Mediating Information: Aspects of the German Information Movement; Index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Information science -- Europe -- History
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Documentation -- Europe -- History
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Information society -- Europe
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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sociology of knowledge.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
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Documentation
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Information science
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Information society
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317139485 |
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1317139488 |
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9781315580951 |
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1315580950 |
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