Plowshares into swords : weaponized knowledge, liberal order, and the League of Nations / David Ekbladh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekbladh, David, 1972- author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

League of Nations.

World politics--1919-1932.

World politics.

World politics--1933-1945.

International cooperation--History--20th century.

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.) : 22 halftones

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order. In 'Plowshares into Swords', David Ekbladh recaptures the power of knowledge and information developed between World War I and World War II by an international society of institutions and individuals committed to liberal international order and given focus by the League of Nations in Geneva.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction: Knowledge in Exile

1: The League Is the Thing: International Society’s Super- University

2: Plowshares into Swords: Knowledge, Weaponized

3: Internationalist Dunkirk: International Society in Exile

4: The Rover Boys of Reconstruction: International Society in the American World

Coda: Great Leaps Forward

Acknowledgments

Archival Collections and Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2023).

ISBN:

0-226-82050-5

OCLC:

1344540171