Internationalists in European History: Rethinking the Twentieth Century (Histories of Internationalism) - Hardcover

Jessica Reinisch; David Brydan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350107352 ISBN 13: 9781350107359

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Synopsis

Representing a crucial intervention in the history of internationalism, transnationalism and global history, this edited collection examines a variety of international movements, organisations and projects developed in Europe or by Europeans over the course of the 20th century. Reacting against the old Eurocentricism, many areas of scholarship have refocused efforts to other parts of the globe. This volume attempts to bring back an understanding of the roles played by ideas, people and organisations originating or located in Europe, including some of their consequential global impact. The chapters cover aspects of internationalism such as the importance of language, communication and infrastructures of internationalism; ways of grappling with the history of internationalism as a lived experience; and the roles of European actors in the formulation of different and often competing models of internationalism. It demonstrates that the success and failure of international programmes were dependent on participants' ability to communicate across linguistic but also political, cultural and economic borders. By bringing together commonly disconnected strands of European history and 'history from below', this volume rebalances and significantly advances the field, and promotes a deeper understanding of internationalism in its many historical guises. The volume is conceived as a way of thinking about internationalism that is relevant not just to scholars of Europe, but to international and global history more generally.

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About the Author

Jessica Reinisch is Research Fellow at Birkbeck, London, UK, where she is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Internationalism. She is also the editor of Contemporary European History and was Principal Investigator of a research group on the history of internationalism, The Reluctant Internationalists (2013-2017). Her first book, The Perils of Peace, was published in 2013 and she has edited two special issues and five volumes, most recently Refugees in Europe, 1919-1959: A Forty Years' Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2017). David Brydan is a Lecturer at King's College London, UK. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher on the Reluctant Internationalists project, and then Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London. His first book Franco's Internationalists (2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350107352
• ISBN 13: 9781350107359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272