Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s

320 Pages·2015·2.121 MB·English

by  Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck, Jakob Vogel

Shaping the Transnational Sphere
Studies in Contemporary European History
Editors:
Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Studien,
Potsdam, Germany
Henry Rousso, Senior Fellow at the Institut d’historie du temps present (Centre
national de la recherché scientifique, Paris) and co-founder of the European
network “EURHISTXX”
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Shaping the transnational sphere: experts, networks and issues from the
1840s to the 1930s / edited by Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck and Jakob
Vogel.
pages cm. -- (Contemporary European history; volume 14)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-78238-358-1 (hardback: alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-78238-359-8
(ebook)
1. Transnationalism--History. 2. Expertise--Social aspects--History. 3.
International agencies--History. 4. International cooperation--History. 5.
Intellectual cooperation--History. 6. Social planning--International
cooperation--History. I. Rodogno, Davide, 1972- II. Struck, Bernhard. III.
Vogel, Jakob.
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Table of Contents
ContentS
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List of Illustrations viii
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations xi
Introduction  1
Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck and Jakob Vogel
Part I: Experts
Chapter 1
Professionalism or Proselytism? Catholic ‘Internationalists’ in the
Nineteenth Century  23
Vincent Viaene
Chapter 2
Sanitizing the City: The Transnational Work and Networks of French
Sanitary Engineers, 1890s–1930s 44
Stéphane Frioux
Chapter 3
Policy Communities and Exchanges across Borders: The Case of
Workplace Accidents at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 60
Julia Moses
vi | Contents
Chapter 4
The Rise of Coordinated Action for Children in War and Peace:
Experts at the League of Nations, 1924–1945 82
Dominique Marshall
Part II: Networks
Chapter 5
  Building a Transnational Network of Social Reform in
the Nineteenth Century 111
Chris Leonards and Nico Randeraad
Chapter 6
  The Politics of Expertise: The Association Internationale pour
le Progrès des Sciences Sociales, Democratic Peace Movements
and International Law Networks in Europe, 1850–1875 131
Christian Müller
Chapter 7
  The Road from Damascus: Transnational Jewish Philanthropic
Organizations and the Jewish Mass Migration from
Eastern Europe, 1840–1914 152
Tobias Brinkmann
Chapter 8
  From Peace Advocacy to International Relations Research:
The Transformation of Transatlantic Philanthropic
Networks, 1 900–1930 173
Katharina Rietzler
Part III: Issues
Chapter 9
  Transnational Cooperation and Criminal Policy:
The Prison Reform Movement, 1820s–1950s 197
Martina Henze
Chapter 10
International Congresses of Education and the Circulation
of Pedagogical Knowledge in Western Europe, 1876–1910 218
Damiano Matasci
Contents | vii
Chapter 11
From Transnational Reformist Network to International
Organization: The International Association for Labour
Legislation and the International Labour Organization,
1900–1930s 239
Sandrine Kott
Chapter 12
Shaping Poland: Relief and Rehabilitation Programmes Undertaken
by Foreign Organizations, 1918–1922 259
Davide Rodogno, Francesca Piana and Shaloma Gauthier
Select Bibliography 279
Notes on Contributors 293
Index 297
illuStrationS
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Figure 6.1. A llegory of the Congress ordering the progress
of the social sciences at the 1864 meeting of the
ISSA in Amsterdam 137
Figure 6.2. M embership figures of the ISSA 137
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Table 2.1.  A selection of international congresses and exhibitions
dealing at least in part with sanitary engineering issues 47
Table 3.1.  M eetings of the International Congress on Accidents at
Work  77
Table 6.1.  M embers of the peace movement sections and their
affiliation to the ISSA 140
Table 10.1. S ample of International Congresses on Education,
1876–1910 221