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- Encourages readers to rethink twentieth-century history by exploring the connections between internationalism and imperialism
- Shows how twentieth-century international and imperial actors interacted with one another across institutional and spatial boundaries
- Chapters span a range of countries and empires, from the interwar years to the post-colonial world order
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series (PMSTH)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Internationalism(s) in an Imperial World: the Interwar Years
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Imperialism(s) and International Institutions: the Aftermath of World War II
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Imperial Resiliencies in the Post-colonial World Order
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About this book
This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts. Bringing together scholars from diverse theoretical, methodological and geographical backgrounds, the book explores an array of fundamental actors, institutions and processes that have decisively shaped contemporary history and the present. Among other crucial topics, it considers the expansion in the number and scope of activities of international organizations and its impact on formal and informal imperial polities, as well as the propagation of developmentalist ethos and discourses, relating them to major historical processes such as the growing institutionalization of international scrutiny in the interwar years or, later, the emerging global Cold War.
Reviews
“In this engaging book, Paolo Boccagni asks about the meaning of home for people who have decided to leave their previous home and settle in a new place. … Boccagni’s book is a great and important read on the migration-home nexus. It will be of high interest to students and scholars alike who work on migration, home and transnationalism.” (Christine Barwick, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 34, 2019)
“This volume of essays is the most vehement caution yet that historians of the twentieth century cannot ignore the complicating place of imperialism in the pasts of the present, regardless of whether we trace those pasts back by picking up the strands of national or international institutions, practices or thought.” (Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of Sydney, Australia)“Just as empires were global phenomena, so, too, the administrative agencies, international organizations, and oppositional networks engaged by those empires' decolonization were global in vision and reach. This essay collection highlights the intersections involved. The issues addressed retain a powerful resonance, from the consideration of international organisations as sites of internationalist innovation to the public diplomacy of anti-colonialism and the imperial foundations of modernisation theories and development strategies. From first to last, it's a rewarding read.” (Martin Thomas, Professor of Imperial History, University of Exeter, UK)
“This elegant edited volume innovates in terms of methodology and historiography thanks to the work of the editors. They set up a very coherent and consistent editorial project and asked a number of well-known outstanding contributors to reflect and write individual chapters that pondered, connected and intertwined the role of internationalism and imperialism in the making of our world. All authors went beyond labels, trends and buzzwords; in their respective chapters they zoomed in and out providing compelling analyses. This sophisticated and nuanced volume will trigger new research. It will be read and greatly appreciated by undergraduate, graduate students and scholars alike.” (Davide Rodogno, International History, Professor and Head of Department, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland)
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra Center for Social Studies, Coimbra, Portugal
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, José Pedro Monteiro
About the editors
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is a Research Fellow at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. His research interests focus on the global, comparative and connected histories of imperialism, colonialism and internationalism (XIX-XX centuries). He has been working on the historical intersections between imperialism and internationalism and also on those between development and security in late colonialism.
José Pedro Monteiro is a researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He has been working on the processes of internationalization of native labour policies and politics in the Portuguese colonial empire after World War II. He is now developing a project on the politics of citizenship and human rights in the Portuguese empire.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World
Book Subtitle: The Pasts of the Present
Editors: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, José Pedro Monteiro
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60693-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60692-7Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86913-1Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60693-4Published: 24 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6273
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6281
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 365
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, Historiography and Method, Political History