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Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the
present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and
brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from
both national and regional perspectives, and combines political
survey with grass roots 'people' history. Bringing this history
vividly to life, the authors use a very broad range of sources
including memoirs, archives, letters, songs and newspapers. In
particular, there is new treatment of the following themes:
Religion and the modern Papacy Immigration in Europe and
relationships between minority and majority groups UNESCO The
European Bill of Rights The seeds of conflict in Bosnia and Croatia
Europe's relations with the wider world, with particular attention
to the Middle East and Japan.
Based on new archival research, this is the first comprehensive
study of the failure of international co-operation to combat the
Great Depression. The book explores the impact of protectionism,
reparations and war debts, as well as the more well known
disagreements on monetary issues which, together, helped to prolong
the most profound economic depression of the twentieth century. The
economic and diplomatic lessons drawn from this period by the major
powers - particularly German intelligence as to the deep divisions
in Anglo-American economic relations - also provide an important
contribution to understanding the origins of the Second World War
and the diplomatic and economic order created in its aftermath.
- Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots 'people' history. Bringing this history vividly to life, the authors use a very broad range of sources including memoirs, archives, letters, songs and newspapers.
This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a
mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of
indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as
politicians, economists and central bankers. Leading scholars trace
the emergence of intergovernmental organisations such as the League
of Nations, the United Nations, the International Labour
Organisation and the World Health Organisation, and the
corresponding expansion in transnational sociability and economic
entanglement throughout the long twentieth century. They reveal how
international thought helped to drive major transformations in the
governance of global issues from refugees to slavery and
sex-trafficking, from the environment to women's rights and human
rights, and from state borders and national minorities to health,
education, trade and commerce. In challenging dominant perceptions
of how contemporaries thought of nations, states and empires,
Internationalisms radically alters our understanding of the major
events and ideas that shaped twentieth-century politics, culture,
economics and society.
Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global
capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations. Based
on new research drawn together from archives on three continents,
it explores how the world's first ever inter-governmental
organization sought to understand and shape the powerful forces
that influenced the global economy, and the prospects for peace. It
traces how the League was drawn into economics and finance by the
exigencies of the slump and hyperinflation after the First World
War, when it provided essential financial support to Austria,
Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, and Estonia and, thereby, established
the founding principles of financial intervention, international
oversight, and the twentieth-century notion of international
'development'. But it is the impact of the Great Depression after
1929 that lies at the heart of this history. Patricia Clavin traces
how the League of Nations sought to combat economic nationalism and
promote economic and monetary co-operation in a variety of,
sometimes contradictory, ways. Many of the economists, bureaucrats,
and policy-advisors who worked for it played a seminal role in the
history of international relations and social science, and their
efforts did not end with the outbreak of the Second World War. In
1940 the League established an economic mission in the United
States, where it contributed to the creation of organizations for
the post-war world - the United Nations Organization, the IMF, the
World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization - as well as
to plans for European reconstruction and co-operation. It is a
history that resonates deeply with challenges that face the
Twenty-First Century world.
This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a
mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of
indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as
politicians, economists and central bankers. Leading scholars trace
the emergence of intergovernmental organisations such as the League
of Nations, the United Nations, the International Labour
Organisation and the World Health Organisation, and the
corresponding expansion in transnational sociability and economic
entanglement throughout the long twentieth century. They reveal how
international thought helped to drive major transformations in the
governance of global issues from refugees to slavery and
sex-trafficking, from the environment to women's rights and human
rights, and from state borders and national minorities to health,
education, trade and commerce. In challenging dominant perceptions
of how contemporaries thought of nations, states and empires,
Internationalisms radically alters our understanding of the major
events and ideas that shaped twentieth-century politics, culture,
economics and society.
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