Remaking Central Europe The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands

by Becker, Peter; Wheatley, Natasha

• ISBN13: 9780191888885
• ISBN10: 0191888885
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2021-02-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Peter Becker, Professor, University of Vienna,Natasha Wheatley, Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Peter Becker is Professor of Austrian History in the Department of History at the University of Vienna. Before moving to Vienna, he held a professorship at the European University Institute in Florence, where he started his research on the history of modern state and governance especially of the Habsburg monarchy and on the cultural history of public administration.

Natasha Wheatley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty, she completed her PhD at Columbia University and was an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Central Europe and the New International Order of 1919, Peter Becker and Natasha Wheatley
1. Habsburg Histories of Internationalism, Glenda Sluga
Part One: Remaking Actors and Networks
2. Clemens Pirquet: Early Twentieth-Century Scientific Networks, the Austrian Hunger Crisis, and the Making of the International Food Expert, Michael Burri
3. Reinventing International Health in East Central Europe: The League of Nations, State Sovereignty, and Universal Health, Sara Silverstein
4. The Polycentric Remaking of International Participation after World War I: (Post-)Imperial Agents from Eastern Europe in and around the League of Nations' Secretariat, Katja Naumann
5. Austria, the League of Nations, and the Birth of Multilateral Financial Control, Nathan Marcus
6. Hungary and the League of Nations: A Forced Marriage, Zoltan Peterecz
7. On the Fraught Internationalism of Intellectuals: Alfons Dopsch, Austria, and the League's Intellectual Cooperation Program, Johannes Feichtinger
Part Two: Remaking Territories and Borders
8. Remaking Mobility: International Conferences and the Emergence of the Modern Passport System, Peter Becker
9. International Commerce in the Wake of Empire: Central European Economic Integration between National and Imperial Sovereignty, Madeleine Lynch Dungy
10. Fighting the Scourge of International Crime: The Internationalisation of Policing and Criminal Law in Interwar Europe, David Petruccelli
11. Nation, Internationalism, and the Policies against Trafficking in Girls and Women after the Fall of the Habsburg Empire, Martina Steer
12. The League of Nations and the Optants Disputes of the Hungarian Borderlands: Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, Antal Berkes
13. Non-Territorial Autonomy in Interwar European Minority Protection and Its Habsburg Legacies, B?rries Kuzmany
14. Beyond the League of Nations: Public Debates on International Relations in Czechoslovakia during the Interwar Period, Sarah Lemmen
An Epilogue to the Making and Unmaking of Central Europe and Global Order, Patricia Clavin