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Klappentext This collection of essays traces the nineteenth-century origins of modern internationalism and the emergence of global society. With contributions from distinguished scholars, both American and European, the book offers a fresh approach to the study of international history. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays traces the origins of modern internationalism and the emergence of global society in the nineteenth century. It offers a fresh approach to the study of international history by looking at the structural prerequisites of the thriving internationalism before the First World War. Introduction: The Mechanics of Internationalism; Free Trade, Protectionism, and the World Economy; One Language for the World: The Metric System, International Coinage, Gold Standard, and the Rise of Internationalism, 1850-1900; Passports and the Status of Aliens; Governmental Internationalism and the Beginning of a New World Order in the Late Nineteenth Century; Searching for a 'Royal International': The Mechanics of Monarchical Relationships in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Workers of the World Unite? Exploring the Enigma of the Second International; The Making of International Women's Organizations; Internationalizing Civilization by Dissolving International Society. The Status of Non-European Territories in Nineteenth-Century International Law; Nationalism and the Quest for Moral Universalism: German Freemasonry, 1860-1914; 'The next great task of civilization': International Exchange in Popular Science. The German-American Case, 1850-1900; Harmonicas for the World. The Creation and Marketing of a Global Product; 'Art knows no fatherland': Internationalism and the Reception of German Art in France in the early Third Republic; The Rise of Internationalism in Sport; The 'Philosophical World Journey' in the Nineteenth Century as a Cultural Comparison: From Investigating the World to Exploring the Self; 'Taking the Waters': Meeting Places of the Fashionable World...
