Article ID: CBB001212667

Infrastructural Globalization: Lighting the China Coast, 1860s--1930s (2013)

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Bickers, Robert (Author)


Historical Journal
Volume: 56,no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 431-458

This article calls for attention to be paid to the infrastructures that underpinned nineteenth-century globalization, and the use of better-known technological developments and global patterns of professional migration. It does so by outlining the work of the Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service after 1868, focusing on its development of a network of lighthouses along the coast of China in its political and comparative contexts. These lights were at once local sites and nodes within a developing national and global system, and evolving practices around circulation of data and best practice, accepted international standards, technology transfer, and maritime safety. The Customs Service was a Chinese government agency, albeit within the British orbit of influence, but acted as a buffer between China and foreign interests and pressures.

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Authors & Contributors
Arapostathis, Stathis
Elshakry, Marwa S.
Freeberg, Ernest F.
Ghazal, Yazan Abu
Gooday, Graeme J. N.
Nye, David E.
Journals
French Historical Studies
History and Technology
History of Psychiatry
Journal of Social History
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Technology's Stories
Publishers
MIT Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Georgia Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Penguin
Concepts
Urbanization
Urban planning
Cities and towns
Lighting, electric
Technology and society
Electrification
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Edison, Thomas Alva
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19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, late
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United States
Berlin (Germany)
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, U.S.)
Great Britain
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