Internationalisms A Twentieth-Century History

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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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.

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• Assisted by: Sunil Amrith (Editor), Sluga Glenda (Editor), Clavin Patricia (Editor), Glenda Sluga (Editor), Patricia Clavin (Editor), Glenda (University of Sydney) Sluga (Editor), Patricia (University of Oxford) Clavin (Editor)
• Authors: Glenda Sluga, Glenda (University of Sydney) Clavin Sluga, Glenda Clavin Sluga
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.08.2016
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781107645080
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64508-0
• Pages: 386
• Subjects: 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history