Research Catalog

Title

Networking the international system : global histories of international organizations / Madeleine Herren, editor ; in collaboration with Maya Okuda.

Publication

• Cham ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Dordrecht ; London : Springer, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Herren, Madeleine
• Okuda, Maya

Description

vi, 205 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context, 2191-656X

Uniform Title

Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context

Subject

• International agencies
• International agencies > History
• Peacekeeping forces > International cooperation
• Peacekeeping forces > International cooperation > History
• International Agencies
• international organizations
• 89.72 international organizations
• Internationale Organisation
• Global Governance
• Asia
• Europe
• International organizations
• History
• Peacekeeping
• International co-operation
• Internationella organisationer
• Internationellt samarbete
• Fredsbevarande styrkor

Genre/Form

• History.
• Geschiedenis (vorm)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Towards a global history of international organization / Madeleine Herren -- Part I. Constructing the memory of international organizations -- From the League of Nations to the United Nations : the continuing preservation and development of the Geneva archives / Sigrun Habermann-Box -- Matsuoka Yosuke's miscalculation at Geneva : a possible reconsideration using JACAR data / Kenichiro Hirano -- Part II. Eurocentrism and science policy -- On the concept of international organization : centralization, hegemonism, and constitutionalism / Toshiki Mogami -- Activities and discourses on international cultural relations in modern Japan : the making of KBS (Kokusai Bunka Shinko Kai), 1934-1953 / Atsushi Shibasaki -- International control of epidemic diseases from a historical and cultural perspective / Naomi Nagata -- Part III. International organization as a forum : turning local concerns into global issues -- Sino-Japanese controversies over the textbook problem and the League of Nations / Shin Kawashima -- Beyond empires' science : inter-imperial Pacific science networks in the 1920s / Tomoko Akami -- Networking through the Y : the role of YMCA in China's search for new national identity and internationalization / Guoqi Xu -- Part IV. Culture and standardization : the multifunctional and contradictory use of international organizations -- Global governance : from organizations to networks or not? / Craig N. Murphy -- New capitalism, UNESCO, and the re-enchantment of culture / Timothy D. Taylor -- Popular culture and international cooperation in the 1930s / Bjarne Rogan -- Avenues and confines of globalizing the past : UNESCO's International Commission for a "Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind" (1952-1969) / Katja Naumann.

ISBN

• 9783319042107
• 3319042106
• 9783319042114 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2014940974
• 9783319042107

OCLC

• ocn872988643
• 872988643
• SCSB-1825912

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library