Knowledge Flows in a Global Age

John Krige is the Kranzberg Professor Emeritus in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor, most recently, of Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Introduction
   Writing the Transnational History of Knowledge Flows in a Global Age
   John Krige
Chapter 1
   Knowledge, State Power, and the Invention of International Science
   Jessica Wang

Part I: Regulating Transnational Knowledge Flows
Chapter 2
   Harnessing Invention: The British Admiralty and the Political Economy of Knowledge in the World War I Era
   Katherine C. Epstein
Chapter 3
   Culture Diplomacy: Penicillin and the Problem of Anglo-American Knowledge Sharing in World War II
   Michael A. Falcone
Chapter 4
   Dangerous Calculations: The Origins of the US High-Performance Computer Export Safeguards Regime, 1968–1974
   Mario Daniels
Chapter 5
   Regulating the Transnational Flow of Intangible Knowledge of Space Launchers between the United States and China in the Clinton Era
   John Krige

Part II: Facilitating Transnational Knowledge Flows
Chapter 6
   Beyond Borlaug’s Shadow: Mexican Seeds and the Narratives of the Green Revolution
   Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Chapter 7
   Moving Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America, 1940–1961
   Maria Gago
Chapter 8
   Statistics and Emancipation from New Deal America to Guerrilla Warfare in Guinea-Bissau
   Tiago Saraiva
Chapter 9
   Security versus Sovereignty in a Palestinian Seed Bank
   Courtney Fullilove
Chapter 10
   How Data Cross Borders: Globalizing Plant Knowledge through Transnational Data Management and Its Epistemic Economy
   Sabina Leonelli
Conclusion
   Decentering the Global North
   John Krige
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index