BOOK SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Front matter
Introduction : Internationalists in European History
David Brydan and Jessica Reinisch
pp. 1–13
Part 1. Communication and infrastructure
Chapter 1. Building a communist Tower of Babel : Esperanto and the language politics of internationalism in revolutionary Russia
Brigid O’Keeffe
pp. 17–32
Chapter 2. Coded internationalism and telegraphic language
Heidi Tworek
pp. 33–50
Chapter 3. An international language for all : Basic English and the limits of a global communication experiment
Valeska Huber
pp. 51–67
Chapter 4. Radio and revolution : Tirana via Bari, from Moscow to Beijing
Elidor Mëhilli
pp. 68–85
Part 2. Local encounters
Chapter 5. Speaking the language of humanitarianism or ‘Speaking Bolshevik’ : Visions and vocabularies of relief in Soviet Armenia, 1920–8
Jo Laycock
pp. 89–104
Chapter 6. Yugoslav refugees and British relief workers in Italian and Egyptian refugee camps, 1944–6
Kornelija Ajlec
pp. 105–123
Chapter 7. Local and global : Religious institutes, Catholic internationalism and the Peru mission
Carmen M. Mangion
pp. 124–139
Chapter 8. Knowledge as aid : Locals experts, international health organizations and building the first Czechoslovak penicillin factory, 1944–9
Sławomir Łotysz
pp. 140–157
Part 3. Internationalism as activism
Chapter 9. Student activists and international cooperation in a changing world, 1919–60
Daniel Laqua
pp. 161–181
Chapter 10. Vegetables of the world unite! : Grassroots internationalization of disabled citizens in the post-war period
Monika Baár
pp. 182–197
Chapter 11. ‘A writer deserves to be paid for his work’ : American progressive writers, foreign royalties and the limits of Soviet internationalism in the mid-to-late 1950s
Kristy Ironside
pp. 198–214
Chapter 12. Antagonistic internationalists : Catholic activists and the UN system after 1945
David Brydan
pp. 215–228
Part 4. Europe in a global context
Chapter 13. Internationalists in flight? : Tourism, propaganda and the making of Air France’s global empire
Jessica Lynne Pearson
pp. 231–246
Chapter 14. Even better than the real thing? : The United States, the TVA and the development of the Mekong
Vincent Lagendijk
pp. 247–262
Afterword : On the chances and challenges of populating internationalism
Kiran Klaus Patel
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