Shaping the Transnational Sphere : : Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s / / ed. by Bernhard Struck, Davide Rodogno, Jakob Vogel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Brinkmann, Tobias,; Frioux, Stéphane,; Gauthier, Shaloma,; Henze, Martina,; Kott, Sandrine,; Leonards, Chris,; Marshall, Dominique,; Matasci, Damiano,; Moses, Julia,; Müller, Christian,; Piana, Francesca,; Randeraad, Nico,; Rietzler, Katharina,; Rodogno, Davide,; Struck, Bernhard,; Viaene, Vincent,; Vogel, Jakob,
• HerausgeberIn: Rodogno, Davide,; Struck, Bernhard,; Vogel, Jakob,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary European History ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

In the second half of the nineteenth century a new kind of social and cultural actor came to the fore: the expert. During this period complex processes of modernization, industrialization, urbanization, and nation-building gained pace, particularly in Western Europe and North America. These processe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I Experts
• Chapter 1 Professionalism or Proselytism? Catholic ‘Internationalists’ in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 2 Sanitizing the City The Transnational Work and Networks of French Sanitary Engineers, 1890s–1930s
• Chapter 3 Policy Communities and Exchanges across Borders The Case of Workplace Accidents at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• Chapter 4 The Rise of Coordinated Action for Children in War and Peace Experts at the League of Nations, 1924–1945
• Part II Networks
• Chapter 5 Building a Transnational Network of Social Reform in the Nineteenth Century
• 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
• Chapter 7 The Road from Damascus Transnational Jewish Philanthropic Organizations and the Jewish Mass Migration from Eastern Europe, 1840–1914
• Chapter 8 From Peace Advocacy to International Relations Research The Transformation of Transatlantic Philanthropic Networks, 1900–1930
• Part III Issues
• Chapter 9 Transnational Cooperation and Criminal Policy The Prison Reform Movement, 1820s–1950s
• Chapter 10 International Congress es of Education and the Circulation of Pedagogical Knowledge in Western Europe, 1876–1910
• Chapter 11 From Transnational Reformist Network to International Organization The International Association for Labour Legislation and the International Labour Organization, 1900–1930s
• Chapter 12 Shaping Poland Relief and Rehabilitation Programmes Undertaken by Foreign Organizations, 1918–1922
• Select Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index