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Placing internationalism : international conferences and the making of the modern world / edited by Stephen Legg, Mike Heffernan, Jake Hodder and Benjamin J. Thorpe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Histories of internationalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internationalism.
- Congresses and conventions.
- International organization.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color), maps.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- International conferencing as a political practice
- Structure
- Approaches
- Chapter 1: Towards an historical geography of international conferencing
- Pre-histories of the modern conference
- Modern international conferences
- Liberal international conferencing
- Colonial, imperial and Commonwealth conferencing
- Anti-colonial, non-aligned and activist conferencing
- Conclusion
- Part I: State internationalism
- Chapter 2: Ambassadors, activists and experts: Conferencing and the internationalization of international relations in the nineteenth century
- Chapter 3: Contesting representations of indigeneity at the First Inter-American Indigenista Congress, 1940
- The physical and social spaces of the conference
- Leadership of and participation in the conference
- Indigenous agency, voice and resistance
- Chapter 4: Awe and espionage at Lancaster House: The African decolonization conferences of the early 1960s
- Background to the conferences
- The London advantage: Control, influence, expertise, infrastructure and espionage
- 'The Lancaster House treatment'
- Travelling from Africa
- Part II: Science, civil society and the state
- Chapter 5: Conferencing the aerial future
- The international atmosphere
- Aerial futures at the 1926 Imperial Conference
- Weather permitting: The 1929 Conference of Empire Meteorologists
- Rehearsing the aerial future: The 1930 Imperial Conference
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Scientific internationalism in a time of crisis: The Month of Intellectual Cooperation at the 1937 Paris World Fair
- Introduction: Paris 1937
- A huge 'waste of time'?
- The Month of Intellectual Cooperation: A guardian angel for world peace?
- The World Congress of Universal Documentation 1937: Non-utopian internationalism?
- Conclusion: Internationalism, networking and the benefits of chitchat
- Chapter 7: Between camaraderie and rivalry: Geopolitics at the eighteenth International Geographical Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 1956
- Introduction
- Media narratives on the eighteenth IGC
- Practical geopolitical reasoning at the conference
- Final words
- Part III: Permanent institutions
- Chapter 8: Spectacular peacebuilding: The League of Nations and internationalist visions at interwar World Expos
- War and peace at the Paris Exposition of 1937
- A pavilion in partnership: The League and the RUP's proletarian internationalism
- An appeal to American psychology? The League at the New York World's Fair of 1939
- A technical League: Accommodating multiple internationalisms
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Placing internationalism
- ISBN:
- 9781350254831
- 1350254835
- 9781350247192
- 1350247197
- 9781350247208
- 1350247200
- Publisher Number:
- 99989189636
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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