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050 4 _aJZ4871 .L434 2019
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100 1 _aGram-Skjoldager, Karen.
245 1 4 _aThe League of Nations :
_bPerspectives from the Present.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAarhus :
_bAarhus University Press,
_c2019.
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a1 online resource (285 pages)
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505 0 _aCover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword (Michael Møller) -- Introduction -- The League of Nations- Perspectives from the Present (Haakon A. Ikonomou And Karen Gram-Skjoldager) -- Bibliography -- Part 1-Inside The League -- The Men Behind the Man: Canvassing the Directorship of the League of Nations Secretariat (Torsten Kahlert And Karen Gram-Skjoldager) -- Three Generations -- The Directors in the Institutional Setup of the Secretariat -- Founding Fathers - The Firs T Generation(1920-1927) -- The Insiders - The Second Genera Tion(1928-1932) -- The Third Generation (1933-1946) -- Conclusion and Perspectives - Afterlives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- An International Language: The Translation and Interpretation Service (Haakon A. Ikonomou) -- So Much to Do! -- Towards A Geneva Language -- Translation and Interpretationas Heroic Internationalism -- A New Diplomacy - The Symbolic Significance of Translation and Interpretation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Taming the Bureaucrats: The Supervisory Commission and Political Control of The Secretariat (Karen Gram-Skjoldager) -- The Power of the Purse -- The Supervisory Commission Andthe Institutional Balances of the League -- The Supervisory Commissionand The Rise of the Small States -- War And The Problem of Avenol -- Between Montreal and Geneva -- Conclusion and Perspectives- Preparing for Peace -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Competing Internationalisms at The League of Nations Secretariat, 1933-1940 (Marco Moraes) -- Before Avenol -- Joseph Avenol, Secretary-General(1933-1940) -- Apolitical Technocracy or Fascist Internationalism? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Gender Distribution in the League of Nations: The Start of A Revolution? (Myriam Piguet) -- A Unique Step Towardsgender Equality -- A Gap to be Uncovered.
505 8 _aThe Bureaucratic Revolution that Favoured the Emergence of Women in International Administration -- In Practice, Genderinequality Remained -- The Gendered Division of Labour -- A Question of Education -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 2-The Leaguein Context -- Naturism, The Permanent Mandates Commission, And the Denial of the Violent Nature of Colonialism (Florian Wagner) -- The Pmc: A Civilisin G Institution -- Using The Early League to Influencethe "International Talk"To Belgium's Advantage -- Colonial Internationalismand The "Neutrality" of the Pmc -- "Neutrality" as Solidarityamong Colonisers -- Scandals And Reform Initiatives -- Legitimising Colonialism through Reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Israel Zangwill on Nationality and 'The League of Damnations' (Laura Almagor) -- Israel Zangwill -- 'Nationality' -- Two Men, One Brother -- The League of Damnations -- A Jewish Moral Vanguard -- Conclusion: Against the Grain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Untold Story of Eric Colban and the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange (Mads Drange) -- The Minority Sectionof the League of Nations -- The Greco-Turkish Population exchange Agreement -- Colban's Secret Diplomacy -- Humanitarianism and Realpolitik -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 'He Used to Give Me Turkish Lessons in Constantinople': How to Get a Job in the League Secretariat (Haakon A. Ikonomou) -- Moment of Flux -- Thanassis Aghnides Gets A Job -- The Lasting Significance of the First Employees -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Scandinavian Centre: Denmark and the Early Years of International Studies Under the League of Nations (Søren Friis) -- The International Studies Conference and its Components -- The Institute of Economics and History- Copenhagen and Beyond -- An International Affair- Who, When And Where?.
505 8 _aPostscript: International Studies and the New Era -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Neoliberals and the League of Nations: on The Incidental Birth of Neoliberalism Within the League's Dot-Connecting System -- A Global Web -- From Hamburg to Honolulu- To Christchurch -- From Geneva to London- To Christchurch -- The Incidental birth of Neoliberalism -- The Landscape of The Lea Gue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Fuller Knowledge of the Facts': The League of Nations' Endeavours to Produce International Expertise (Quincy Cloet) -- Unfinished Dream, Underexplored Subject -- Knowledge Production and Inquiry Commissions -- Putting Together an Inquiry Commission -- How to Find the Facts -- Inquiry: What Is It Good For? -- International Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Beyond the Formula of the Age of Reason: Experts, Social Sciences, And the Phonic Public in International Politics (Tomoko Akami) -- Problem 1 -- Problem 2 -- And Beyond the Formula of the Age of the Reason -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bandung Revisited: from Rural Hygiene to Primary Health Care (Niels Brimnes) -- The League of Nations' Conferenceon Rural Hygiene -- The Alma-Ata Conferenceand the Principles behind Primary Health Care -- From Bandung to Alma-Ata -- Remembering Bandung 1937 -- The Legacy of the League -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 3- The League: Projections And Presence -- From the Gallery to The Floor: The League of Nations and the Combating of 'False Information' (Emil Eiby Seidenfaden) -- The Information Section -- The International Conferences of Press Experts -- Moral Disarmament -- The Greater League of Nations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Film-Splaining the League of Nations (Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Nikolai Schulz and Emil Eiby Seidenfaden) -- League Films and the Purpose of the League at Work -- "Judge it for Yourselves".
505 8 _aA Smooth-Running, Fair, Efficient and Abstemious Machine -- What we are not Told -- Aesthetics and the Use of Cut Away Scenesto Loosen Up the League -- The Scene That Will Give You Goosebumps -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Murder, Intrigue, Sex and Internationalism: Novels about the League of Nations (Benjamin Auberer) -- The Death of A Diplomat- International Civil Servants as Authors -- Mystery at Geneva: Novels About the League of Nations -- Grand Days: League Novels After the League -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Imagining the League of Nations: Cartoons as A Prism for Perceptions of International Politics and Organisations -- An Insightful Source -- Narratives from the 1920s:A New Actress on the International Stage -- A League Under Fire:Crisis and Failure in the 1930s -- Squabbling Diplomats Andapathetic Technocrats -- A League in Despair:French and German Perspectivesin France, The Unravelling of the Versailles Order Caused Security -- Small Stateand Idealist Perceptions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 'A Great Experiment': Professional Self-Perceptions and Working Conditions in the Secretariat (Karen Gram-Skjoldager) -- Bureaucratic Adventurers -- Dr. Léon Weber-Bauler's Report -- A Tour of Palais Wilson -- From Palais Wilsonto the Palais Des Nations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Modernist in Geneva: Le Corbusier and the Competition for the Palais des Nations (Marco Ninno) -- The Importance of Semantics -- The Case of Le Corbusier -- The New Project for the Arian A Parkand the Alleged Plagiarism -- Conclusion: Le Corbusier's 'Revenge' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 'The League is Dead, Long Live The United Nations': The Liquidation of the League and the Transfer of Assets to the UN (Torsten Kahlert) -- Dissolution and Liquidation -- Disrespect and Dignity -- The League on Both Sides.
505 8 _aConclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Concluding Essay -- 'A Living Thing is Born': The League of Nations and The Contemporary World (Patrick Finney) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photo Credits -- Colophon.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aInternational relations-History-20th century.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aIkonomou, Haakon A.
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