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Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: What Are Export Controls, and Why Do They Matter? -- Part 1 -- Chapter 2. The Invention of Export Controls over Unclassified Technological Data and Know-How (1917-45) -- Chapter 3. The Cold War National Security State and the Export Control Regime -- Part 2 -- Chapter 4. The Recalibration of American Power, the Bucy Report, and the Reshaping of Export Controls in the 1970s -- Chapter 5. The Reagan Administration's Attempts to Control Soviet Knowledge Acquisition in Academia -- Chapter 6. Academia Fights Back: The Corson Panel and the Fundamental Research Exclusion -- Part 3 -- Chapter 7. "Economic Security" and the Politics of Export Controls over Technology Transfers to Japan in the 1980s -- Chapter 8. Paradigm Shifts in Export Control Policies by Reagan, Bush, and Clinton and the Evolving US-China Relations -- Chapter 9. The Conflict over Technology Sharing in Clinton's Second Term: The Cox Report and the Use of Chinese Launchers -- Part 4 -- Chapter 10. Epilogue: Export Controls, US Academia, and the Chinese-American Clash during the Trump Administration -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Early Modern Scientific Networks: Knowledge and Community in a Globalizing World, 1500-1800 -- Part I: Brokers of Knowledge -- 1: A Scholarly Intermediary Between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe -- 2: How Information Travels: Jesuit Networks, Scientific Knowledge, and the Early Modern Republic of Letters, 1540-1640 -- 3: Deciphering the Ignatian Tree: The Catholic Horoscope of the Society of Jesus -- 4: The Early Modern Information Factory: How Samuel Hartlib Turned Correspondence into Knowledge -- Part II: Configuring Scientific Networks -- 5: Letters and Questionnaires: the Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and the Early Royal Society of London's Inquiries ... -- 6: Ingenuous Investigators: Antonio Vallisneri's Regional Network and the Making of Natural Knowledge in ... -- 7: Corresponding in War and Peace: The Challenge of Rebooting Anglo-french Scientific Relations During the Peace of Amiens -- Part III: How Knowledge Travels -- 8: Giant Bones and the Taunton Stone: American Antiquities, World History, and the Protestant International -- 9: The Tarot of Yu the Great: the Search for Civilization's Origins Between France and China in the Age of Enlightenment -- 10: Spaces of Circulation and Empires of Knowledge: Ethnolinguistics and Cartography in Early Colonial India -- Part IV: The Local and the Global -- 11: Recentering Centers of Calculation: Reconfiguring Knowledge Networks Within Global Empires of Trade -- 12: The Atlantic World Medical Complex -- 13: Semedo's Sixteen Secrets: Tracing Pharmaceutical Networks in the Portuguese Tropics -- Epilogue -- 14: Following Ghosts: Skinning Science in Early Modern Eurasia.

AbstractThe history of the transmission of Western knowledge to China—Western Learning or Xixue—usually revolves around travelers. What is unmentioned, however, is that the identity of the two types of Chinese travelers of economic knowledge evolved throughout the Western Learning Movement. One-way travelers introduced political economy as a means to improve institutions and statecraft. First-generation Chinese students overseas continued to promote economics as a science capable of enriching a nation's wealth but focused on the theoretical aspect. The second-generation students became economics professionals, who were primarily concerned with practical economic problems and created a scene of practical pluralism of economics during the interwar period. Not all travelers were of the same quality. To judge between the good and bad traveler, further criteria are required. It can be said that good travelers may have a correct understanding of Western theory, and that their translations are faithful, yielding the knowledge they transmitted with integrity. But travelers confronted the problems of trading off faithful and significant knowledge transmissions. Such conundrums can be explained by distinguishing between their distinct conceptions of economics—economics as statecraft, as science, and as a discipline characterized by its practical pluralism—concerning travelers' ideas of solving China's practical economic problems in different periods.

Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. This book focuses on a period when the term "knowledge society" was coined and rapidly found traction. In Scandinavia, society's relationship to rational forms of knowledge became vital to the self-understanding and political ambitions of the era. Taking advantage of contemporary discussions about the circulation, arenas, forms, applications and actors of knowledge, contributors examine various forms of knowledge – economic, environmental, humanistic, religious, political, and sexual – that provide insight into the making and functioning of postwar Scandinavian societies and offer innovative studies that contribute to the development of the history of knowledge at large. The concentration on knowledge rather than the welfare state, the Cold War or the new social and political movements, which to date have attracted the lion's share of scholarly attention, ensures the book makes a historiographical intervention in postwar Scandinavian historiography. Offering a stimulating point of departure for those interested in the history of knowledge and the circulation of knowledge, this is a vital resource for students and scholars of postwar Scandinavia that provides fresh perspectives and new methodologies for exploration.

The production of economic history, like that in many fields of scholarly endeavor, increased sharply in the past quarter-century, compared to the rate of output in earlier eras. While the "new" economic history, with its emphasis on economic theory and measurement, has attracted considerable attention during the last decade, "traditional" economic history, written along institutional lines, has continued to be significant, both quantitatively (in terms of numbers of books and articles) and qualitatively (as assessed by contributions to our understanding of economic processes.)

""In 1975, the German Bundestag published the Psychiatrie-Enquête, a 1,800 pages report, which had been produced over five years by more than 200 experts under the auspices of Aktion psychisch Kranke e.V. The reform movement, which throughout the following 20 years established institutional standards of social psychiatry in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), was strongly influenced by the principles of welfare politics implemented in the states of Northern Europe. However, some minor trajectories of knowledge can be detected and will be discussed in this article. On the level of therapeutic and anthropological thinking, the ongoing and fierce critique of institutionalised psychiatric exclusion in different European countries was accompanied by new arguments of social research and critical theory. On the level of historical awareness, the emerging knowledge of the Nazi genocide and euthanasia led to a memory turn in 1979. Historical research on the so-called forgotten victims supported the acknowledgement and emancipation of psychiatric patients during the 1980s, which could be realised under the new social psychiatry frame. On the level of democratisation, patients' self-help and -advocacy as well as their networks of support established a strong voice in the public, which since then has to be heard in political decision-making. These three trajectories of (marginalised) knowledge strongly affected cultural democratisation as the necessary platform or general heaven for moving social institutions and political realities. The aim of this paper is to get a clearer image of their conceptual influences on Western Germany's intellectual and political consciousness in moving social imagination and the democratisation of interactions. The study will work with the de/constructionist cultural approach to disability in order to expound the problems of knowledge discourses and their effects on the constructions of normativity and inequality." (author's abstract)" (author's abstract)

Although published in 2014, Jablonka's History is a Contemporary
Literature provides important insights into the Trump phenomenon. Why
does a significant portion of the American population overlook Trump's
litany of lies and falsehoods? Journalist Adam Kirsch argued after the election
that popular culture, Reality TV for example, blurred the line between
fiction and truth, creating a "post-truth" atmosphere that paved the way for
Trump. Kirsch echoes Jablonka, who advocates that historians use literary
techniques in the interest of truth. Jablonka insists that history as contemporary
literature must rest on historical research and methodology, using
good historical story-telling to reach broader audiences, increase knowledge
and deepen understanding. Jablonka's manifesto defines writing history as a
form of public service and presciently warns of the potentially catastrophic
results of relinquishing the quest for historical truth.