Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107062853 ISBN 13: 9781107062856

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as politicians, economists and central bankers. Leading scholars trace the emergence of intergovernmental organisations such as the League of Nations, the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation and the World Health Organisation, and the corresponding expansion in transnational sociability and economic entanglement throughout the long twentieth century. They reveal how international thought helped to drive major transformations in the governance of global issues from refugees to slavery and sex-trafficking, from the environment to women's rights and human rights, and from state borders and national minorities to health, education, trade and commerce. In challenging dominant perceptions of how contemporaries thought of nations, states and empires, Internationalisms radically alters our understanding of the major events and ideas that shaped twentieth-century politics, culture, economics and society.

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Book Description:

This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea. Leading scholars trace the expansion of international state and non-state organisations and the corresponding rise in transnational sociability and economic entanglement throughout the long twentieth century.

About the Author:

Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History at the University of Sydney and the recipient of the prestigious Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship. She won the Australian Academy of the Humanities' Max Crawford Medal in 2002, and is a founding member of the International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO, as well as a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her recent publications include Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (2013).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1107062853
• ISBN 13: 9781107062856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 394
• Editor: Sluga Glenda, Clavin Patricia