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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, much of the scholarship in the field has refocussed
attention on other parts of the globe. This volume attempts to
rethink the role 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.
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, much of the scholarship in the field has refocussed
attention on other parts of the globe. This volume attempts to
rethink the role 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.
Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which
characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco
regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent
commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role
which the idea of the Francoist 'social state' also played in the
regime's ongoing search for international legitimacy. Using
research from eighteen archives across six countries, Brydan shows
how social experts, particularly those working in the fields of
public health, medicine, and social insurance, were at the
forefront of efforts to promote the regime abroad. By working with
international organisations in Geneva, Paris, and New York and with
transnational networks of colleagues across Europe, Africa, and
Latin America, they sought to sell the idea of Franco's Spain as a
respectable, modern, and socially-just state. They were
internationalists, but they were Franco's internationalists. In
telling this story, the study disrupts our understanding of the
modern history of internationalism. Exploring what it meant for
Francoist experts to think and act internationally, it challenges
dominant accounts of internationalism as a liberal, progressive
movement by foregrounding the history of fascist, nationalist,
imperialist, and religious forms of international cooperation. It
also brings into focus the overlooked continuities between
international structures and projects before and after 1945. The
case of Spain reveals the contested and heterogeneous nature of
mid-twentieth century internationalism, characterised by the
competition between overlapping global, regional, and imperial
projects.
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