Transregional Connections in the History of East-Central Europe / / ed. by Katja Castryck-Naumann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Nun, Gilad,; Castryck-Naumann, Katja,; Esch, Michael G.,; Harisch, Immanuel R.,; Hock, Beáta,; Kaps, Klemens,; Michalczyk, Andrzej,; Müller, Dietmar,; Müller, Uwe,; Richardson-Little, Ned,
• HerausgeberIn: Castryck-Naumann, Katja,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Dialectics of the Global , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 341 p.)

Transregional connections play a fundamental role in the history of East-Central Europe. This volume explores this connectivity by showing how people from eastern and central parts of Europe have positioned themselves within global processes while, in turn, also shaping them. The contributions examine different fields of action such as economy, arts, international regulations and law, development aid, and migration, focusing on the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War. The authors uncover spaces of interaction and emphasize that internal and external entanglements have established East-Central Europe as a distinct region. Understanding the connectedness of this subregion is stimulating for the historiography of East-Central Europe as it is for the field of global history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- On the Series -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Moving from Transnational to Transregional Connections? East- Central Europe in Global Contexts -- Part I: Positioning in Global Entanglements -- 2 Eastern Europe in the Wheat Crises of Globalization and Deglobalization (1870–1939) -- 3 Informal Networks and Ordinary People’s Agency: A Microhistory of Global Migrations from Upper Silesia, 1830s–1930s -- 4 “162 Artists from over 50 Countries”: Artistic Networking in the Mainstream and on the Margins -- Part II: Partaking in International Politics -- 5 Transnational Drug Trafficking and the German Embrace of International Narcotics Law from the Kaiserreich to the Nazis -- 6 In the Orbit of the League of Nations: International Law Debates and Networks in the Interwar Period -- 7 The Polyglot Background of Eastern Europe’s Jewish International Jurists and Its Talmudic Legal Origins -- Part III: Inter-Regional Connections -- 8 Trade Connections between Eastern European Regions and the Spanish Atlantic during the Eighteenth Century -- 9 Migrants from East-Central Europe in South America: Discourses and Structures between Mission, Pogrom Escape, Human Trafficking, and “Whitening” -- 10 East German Friendship Brigades and Specialists in Angola: A Socialist Globalization Project in the Global Cold War -- List of Contributors -- Index