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How Well Do Facts Travel? : The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge

This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but al

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Peter Howlett;, Mary S. Morgan (Editors). How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge. xviii + 465 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. $29.99 (paper)

Autor: R. by:J. Golinski

Publikováno v: Isis. 103:219-220

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https://doi.org/10.1086/666457

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Moving Knowledge How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan, Eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. 485 pp. $95, £60. ISBN 9780521196543. Paper, $29.99, £19.99. ISBN 9780521159586

Autor: Theodore M. Porter

Publikováno v: Science. 333:824-825

In this series of essays, the authors explore how facts sometimes gain an "independent life" that allows them to be used in fields removed from their original location.

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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207944

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Lessons Learned? British Mobilization for the Two World Wars

Autor: Stephen Broadberry, Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: Economic History of Warfare and State Formation ISBN: 9789811016042

We compare the mobilization of the British economy during the two world wars, asking to what extent performance improved in World War II as a result of lessons learned from the experience of World War I. We find that government controls were introduc

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1605-9_8

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Trade, convergence, and globalisation: The dynamics of the international income distribution, 1950–1998

Autor: Max-Stephan Schulze, Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: Explorations in Economic History. 44:100-113

This paper investigates the evidence for convergence in per capita incomes across 115 economies during the period 1950–1998 and examines the impact that international trade had on this process. Drawing on trade-conditioning within a distribution dy

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2005.10.006

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Book Reviews: British Rail, 1974–97: From Integration to Privatisation, Making Histories in Transport Museums, Classics in Transport Analysis III, Railways, the Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Perils of the Atlantic: Steamship Disasters, 1850s to the Present, Framing Production: Technology, Culture and Change in the British Bicycle Industry, Airspaces, Companion to British Road Haulage History, Come Fly with Us: A Global History of the Airline Hostess, Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism, Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: An Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites, the Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground, Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers, Staying on Track: The Reflections of a Railwayman

Autor: Gregory L. Thompson, Sophie Forgan, Peter Howlett, Ben Marsden, John Armstrong, Nicholas Oddy, Peter Lyth, Tony Kirby, Drew Whitelegg, Shane O'Rourke, Jeffrey Richards, Ralph Harrington, Michael R. Bailey, David E. Tyrrall

Publikováno v: The Journal of Transport History. 25:108-126

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https://doi.org/10.7227/tjth.25.1.7

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Evidence of the Existence of an Internal Labour Market in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1875–1905

Autor: Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: Business History. 42:21-40

Evidence from promotion ladders and the wage payment system of the GER is evaluated to see if it supports existing claims, primarily based on welfare and pension provision, that by 1900 the railway companies had become the first important adherents i

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790000000173

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