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Book SynopsisDaniel Laqua is Lecturer in Modern European History at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations – vii Acknowledgements – ix Preface (Daniel Laqua) – xi Introduction: Conceptualising Transnational Thought and Action between the Wars (Patricia Clavin) – 1 Part A: Infrastructures and Ideas of Internationalism - 15 1. Liberal Internationalist Approaches to Science and Technology in Interwar Britain and the US (Waqar Zaidi) – 17 2. Experts for Peace: Structures and Motivations of Philanthropic Internationalism in the Interwar Years (Katharina Rietzler) – 45 3. In between ‘Vague Theory’ and ‘Sound Practical Lines’: Transnational Municipalism in Interwar Europe (Stefan Couperus) – 67 Part B: The League of Nations and the Efforts of Non-State Actors – 91 4. ‘The Breath of a New Life’? : British Anti-Slavery Activism and the League of Nations (Amalia Ribi) – 93 5. Internationalism in the Economic and Financial Organisation of the League of Nations (Yann Decorzant) – 115 1. ‘Credit or Chaos?’: The Austrian Stabilisation Programme of 1923 and the League of Nations (Frank Beyersdorf) – 134 Part C: The Transnational and National Contexts of Advocacy – 159 2. ‘A Real Meeting of the Women of the East and West’: Women and Internationalism in the Interwar Period (Marie Sandell) – 161 3. The Lifeblood of the League? Voluntary Associations and League of Nations Activism in Britain (Helen McCarthy ) – 187 4. Reconciliation and the Post-War Order: The Place of the Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte in Interwar Pacifist (Daniel Laqua) – 209 Notes on the Contributors – 239 Index – 243
