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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Laqua is Lecturer in Modern European History at Northumbria University! Newcastle upon Tyne. Klappentext With fresh research from several European countries! this book makes an original contribution to the transnational history of the interwar years. With fresh research from several European countries, this book makes an original contribution to the transnational history of the interwar years. Zusammenfassung With fresh research from several European countries, this book makes an original contribution to the transnational history of the interwar years. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations – viiAcknowledgements – ixPreface (Daniel Laqua) – xi Introduction: Conceptualising Transnational Thought and Action between the Wars (Patricia Clavin) – 1 Part A: Infrastructures and Ideas of Internationalism - 151. Liberal Internationalist Approaches to Science and Technology in Interwar Britain and the US (Waqar Zaidi) – 17 2. Experts for Peace: Structures and Motivations of Philanthropic Internationalism in the Interwar Years (Katharina Rietzler) – 45 3. In between ‘Vague Theory’ and ‘Sound Practical Lines’: Transnational Municipalism in Interwar Europe (Stefan Couperus) – 67 Part B: The League of Nations and the Efforts of Non-State Actors – 91 4. ‘The Breath of a New Life’? : British Anti-Slavery Activism and the League of Nations (Amalia Ribi) – 93 5. Internationalism in the Economic and Financial Organisation of the League of Nations (Yann Decorzant) – 115 1. ‘Credit or Chaos?’: The Austrian Stabilisation Programme of 1923 and the League of Nations (Frank Beyersdorf) – 134 Part C: The Transnational and National Contexts of Advocacy – 159 2. ‘A Real Meeting of the Women of the East and West’: Women and Internationalism in the Interwar Period (Marie Sandell) – 161 3. The Lifeblood of the League? Voluntary Associations and League of Nations Activism in Britain (Helen McCarthy ) – 187 4. Reconciliation and the Post-War Order: The Place of the Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte in Interwar Pacifist (Daniel Laqua) – 209 Notes on the Contributors – 239 Index – 243...
