Expert cultures in Central Eastern Europe
Subtitle: the internationalization of knowledge and the transformation of nation states since World War I
By: edited by Martin Kohlrausch, Katrin Steffen and Stefan Wiederkehr
Series: Einzelveröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau -- 23; Einzelveröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau -- 23.
Publisher: Fibre
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Osnabrück
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783938400586
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Specialists; History; Technology; Technology and state; Politics and government; Expertokratie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Expert cultures in Central Eastern Europe : the internationalization of knowledge and the transformation of the nation states since World War I : introduction / Martin Kohlrausch, Katrin Steffen, Stefan Wiederkehr; title: Experts or impostors? : blindness and insight in secret intelligence / Eva Horn; title: Planning and the "techno-corporatist bargain" in Western Europe and the United States, 1914-44 : diffusion and confusion of economic models / Kenneth Bertrams; title: Mimicry in a multiple postcolonial setting : networks of technocracy and scientific management in Piłsudski's Poland / Stefan Rohdewald; title: "The nation is technological" : technical expertise and national competition in the Bohemian lands, 1800-1914 / Elisabeth van Meer; title: People's cars and people's technologies : Škoda and Fiat experts face the American challenge (1918-48) / Valentina Fava; title: Polish economic circles and the question of the Common European Market after World War I / Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast; title: How to run a state : the question of knowhow in public administration in the first years after Poland's rebirth in 1918 / Ingo Loose; title: Languages and politics of international scientific communication in Central Eastern Europe after World War I / Roswitha Reinbothe; title: Serving two dictators : German scientists in the Soviet Union after World War II / Christoph Mick; title: In a state of technological subjection : Soviet advisers in the Hungarian military industry in the 1950s / Pál Germuska; title: Cooperation across the Iron Curtain : Soviet transfer of technology from West Germany in the 1960s / Sari Autio-Sarasmo; title: Beyond the Iron Curtain : experts, consumer rights and the challenge of the political in Poland (1980-89) / Małgorzata Mazurek.