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'Historians are showing that the globalization of information is not a unique historical feature of the contemporary era, but a recurrent construction possessing many facets and unsuspected properties - including a longstanding utopian element. The contributors to this fine collection unearth a revealing series of cultural, intellectual, and technological projects to universalize information systems during the decades before World War I and, in the process, give us new ways of understanding the lineages of our own time.' Dan Schiller, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA 'There is so much in this book ... the complexity and range of ideas discussed here is remarkable, and it is all tremendously engaging.' Library and Information History 'Information Beyond Borders is an excellent example of intellectual information history at its finest. It offers a new lens through which to view a period of history already well studied, and shows us that the emergence of the modern information world was inexorably caught up with deeper historical forces, tensions, and aspirations.' Library and Information History

'Historians are showing that the globalization of information is not a unique historical feature of the contemporary era, but a recurrent construction possessing many facets and unsuspected properties - including a longstanding utopian element. The contributors to this fine collection unearth a revealing series of cultural, intellectual, and technological projects to universalize information systems during the decades before World War I and, in the process, give us new ways of understanding the lineages of our own time.' Dan Schiller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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W. Boyd Rayward is Emeritus Professor at the Universities of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. W. Boyd Rayward, Frank Hartmann, Volker Barth, Heather Gaunt, Jan Surman, Paul Servais, Markus Krajewski, Fabian de Kloe, Christophe Verbruggen, Julie Carlier, Wouter Van Acker, Nader Vossoughian, Daniel Laqua, Geert J. Somsen, Charles van den Heuvel, Mary Carroll, Sue Reynolds, Dave Muddiman, Alistair Black

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