Abstract
When Wells published his monumental two-volume The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind in 1931, one of the memorable metaphors that appeared in the first volume was the “abolition of distance.” Wells saw the analysis of the conquest of distance as the central reason for the urgent need to generate “sound common ideas about work and wealth,” but his analysis of the economy of the modern world was also a treatise about what people now call the globalization process. Because of the abolition of distance, geography “has become something very different from what it was” (Wells, 1931, p. 4).1
This chapter is a considerably expanded and revised version of an oral presentation at the third symposium on “Knowledge and Space” in Heidelberg, June 27–30, 2007. I am grateful to Paul Malone for his editorial assistance.
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This chapter is a considerably expanded and revised version of an oral presentation at the third symposium on “Knowledge and Space” in Heidelberg, June 27–30, 2007. I am grateful to Paul Malone for his editorial assistance.
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Stehr, N. (2010). Global Knowledge?. In: Meusburger, P., Livingstone, D., Jöns, H. (eds) Geographies of Science. Knowledge and Space, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8611-2_2
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