Emotions of Internationalism - Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Associating Emotions and Internationalism with the Alps


• 2: Managing Emotions at the League of Nations


• 3: International Mountaineering while Talking about Emotions


• 4: Seeing Emotions while Healing the Body and the World as a Whole


• 5: A University for Feeling the Emotions of Internationalism


• Conclusion

About the author

A native of Italy, Ilaria Scaglia studied and taught international history in the United States before joining Aston University in Birmingham as a Lecturer in Modern History in 2018. She was also a Volkswagen-Mellon post-doctoral research fellow in Germany (Free University Berlin) and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Her main fields of interest include the history of internationalism and the history of aesthetics and emotions. She is a Board Member of the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) and an active committee member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).

Summary

The Emotions of Internationalism follows a number of international people and institutions active in the Alps in the 1920s and 1930s, exploring how they understood emotions and how they tried to employ them to achieve their political and non-political goals.

Additional text

The Emotions of Internationalism is an asset to both the history of emotions and internationalism. It will encourage further work on the topographies of international ideas and practices.

Product details

• Authors: Ilaria Scaglia, Ilaria (Lecturer in Modern History Scaglia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198848325
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884832-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Emotions in History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, Alps, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Western, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, The Alps, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), International institutions, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General