Europe's internationalists : rethinking the history of internationalism / edited by Jessica Reinisch and David Brydan.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
  • [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
Description
1 online resource (304 pages).

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Subject(s)
Editor
Series
Histories of internationalism [More in this series]
Summary note
"Representing a crucial intervention in the history of internationalism, transnationalism and global history, this edited collection examines a variety of internationalisms developed by Europeans over the course of the 20th century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction : internationalists and Europe / David Brydan and Jessica Reinisch
  • Building a communist Tower of Babel : Esperanto and the language politics of internationalism in revolutionary Russia / Brigid O'Keeffe
  • Coded internationalism and telegraphic language / Heidi Tworek
  • An international language for all : basic English and the limits of a global communication experiment / Valeska Huber
  • Radio and revolution : Tirana via Bari, from Moscow to Beijing / Elidor Mehilli
  • Speaking the language of humanitarianism or 'speaking Bolshevik' : visions and vocabularies of relief in Soviet Armenia, 1920-1928 / Jo Laycock
  • Yugoslav refugees and British relief workers in Italian and Egyptian refugee camps, 1944-1946 / Kornelija Ajlec
  • Local and global : religious institutes, Catholic internationalism and the Peru mission / Carmen M. Mangion
  • Knowledge as aid : locals experts, international health organizations and building the first Czechoslovak penicillin factory, 1944-49 / Sawomir Łotysz
  • Student activists and international cooperation in a changing world, 1919-1960 / Daniel Laqua
  • Vegetables of the world unite! : grassroots internationalization of disabled citizens in the post-war period / Monika Baár
  • '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
  • Antagonistic internationalists : Catholic activists and the UN system after 1945 / David Brydan
  • Internationalists in flight? : tourism, propaganda, and the making of Air France's global empire / Jessica Lynne Pearson
  • Even better than the real thing? : the United States, the TVA, and the development of the Mekong / Vincent Lagendijk
  • Epilogue / Kiran Pate.
ISBN
9781350118546 ((ebook))
OCLC
1238133669
Doi
  • 10.5040/9781350118546
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