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Introduction: European modernism and the information society : conceptual interdependence / W. Boyd Rayward

Understanding the information domain : the uneasy relations between sociology and cultural studies and the peculiar absence of history / Frank Webster

On the cultural and intellectual context of European documentation in the early twentieth century / Michael Buckland

A tale of two narratives : prolegomena to an alternative history of library and information science / Steve Fuller

The role of facts in Paul Otlet's modernist project of documentation / Bernd Frohmann

Ferdinand Vander Haeghen's shadow on Otlet : European resistance to the Americanized modernism of the Office international de bibliographie / Pieter Uyttenhove and Sylvia Van Peteghem

Towers and globes : architectural and epistemological differences between Patrick Geddes's Outlook towers and Paul Otlet's Mundaneums / Pierre Chabard

Building society, constructing knowledge, weaving the web : Otlet's visualizations of a global information society and his concept of a universal civilization / Charles van den Heuvel

Networking knowledge before the information society : the Manchester Central Library (1934) and the metaphysical-professional philosophy of L.S. Jast / Alistair Black

Documentation and utopia : Fabian anticipations of the information society / Alistair S. Duff

Public science in Britain and the origins of documentation and information science, 1890-1950 / Dave Muddiman

The march of the modern and the reconstitution of the world's knowledge apparatus : H.G. Wells, encyclopedism, and the world brain / W. Boyd Rayward

The modern museum in the age of its mechanical reproducibility : Otto Neurath and the Museum of Society and Economy in Vienna / Nader Vossoughian

Gesellschaft und wirtschaft : an encyclopedia in Otto Neurath's pictorial statistics from 1930 / Sybilla Nikolow

Visualizing social facts : Otto Neurath's isotype project / Frank Hartmann

Paper parasite : F.M. Feldhaus and the historiography of technology / Markus Krajewski

Roots of mediating information : aspects of the German information movement / Thomas Hapke.

Documentation > Europe > History.

Information science > Europe > History.

Information society > Europe.