Glenda Sluga

Patricia Clavin

This is a pioneering survey of the rise of internationalism as a mainstream political idea mobilised in support of the ambitions of indigenous populations, feminists and anti-colonialists, as well as politicians, economists and central bankers. Leading scholars trace the emergence of intergovernmental organisations such as the League of Nations, the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation and the World Health Organisation, and the corresponding expansion in transnational sociability and economic entanglement throughout the long twentieth century. They reveal how international thought helped to drive major transformations in the governance of global issues from refugees to slavery and sex-trafficking, from the environment to women's rights and human rights, and from state borders and national minorities to health, education, trade and commerce. In challenging dominant perceptions of how contemporaries thought of nations, states and empires, Internationalisms radically alters our understanding of the major events and ideas that shaped twentieth-century politics, culture, economics and society.

A Twentieth-Century History

Internationalisms

Professor of International History Glenda Sluga

Uses the history of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav border to examine how representations of difference have affected the politics of sovereignty during the twentieth century.

Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe

The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border

This book offers a new view of the twentieth century, placing international ideas and institutions at its heart.

Carolyn James

Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Despite increasing evidence of their involvement in political life across the centuries, the core historical narrative of international politics remains notably depleted of women. This collection challenges this perspective. Chapters cover a wide range of geographical contexts, including Europe, Russia, Britain and the United States, and trace the diversity of women’s activities and the significance of their contributions. Together these essays open up the field to include a broader interpretation of diplomatic work, such as the unofficial avenues of lobbying, negotiation and political representation that made women central diplomatic players in the salons, courts and boudoirs of Europe. Through a selection of case studies, the book throws into new perspective the operations of political power in local and national domains, bridging and at times reconceptualising the relationship of the private to the public. Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 is essential reading for all those interested in the history of diplomacy and the rise of international politics over the past five centuries.

Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500

The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe. This new coalition planted the seeds for today's international order, wedding the idea of a durable peace to multilateralism, diplomacy, philanthropy, and rights, and making Europe its center. Glenda Sluga reveals how at the end of the Napoleonic wars, new conceptions of the politics between states were the work not only of European statesmen but also of politically ambitious aristocratic and bourgeois men and women who seized the moment at an extraordinary crossroads in history. In this panoramic book, Sluga reinvents the study of international politics, its limitations, and its potential. She offers multifaceted portraits of the leading statesmen of the age, such as Tsar Alexander, Count Metternich, and Viscount Castlereagh, showing how they operated in the context of social networks often presided over by influential women, even as they entrenched politics as a masculine endeavor. In this history, figures such as Madame de Staël and Countess Dorothea Lieven insist on shaping the political transformations underway, while bankers influence economic developments and their families agitate for Jewish rights. Monumental in scope, this groundbreaking book chronicles the European women and men who embraced the promise of a new kind of politics in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, and whose often paradoxical contributions to modern diplomacy and international politics still resonate today.

Remaking Europe After Napoleon

The Invention of International Order

Barbara Caine

Este libro ofrece un estudio sobre el papel que ha tenido el género en la historia de Europa, desde la Revolución Francesa hasta el final de la Primera Guerra Mundial. A lo largo de seis capítulos se describe su alcance y relación con los temas y acontecimientos más significativos del periodo tratado: trabajo, vida urbana y doméstica, políticas nacionales, el fin-de-siècle y el imperialismo, así como con el nacionalismo, liberalismo y socialismo, para concluir con la descripción de su propia crisis en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Al explorar el tema del género, se aborda la diferencia sexual según la clase social, la cultura y la raza, y se subrayan los debates producidos al respecto en contextos europeos. Al integrar el estudio del género en la moderna historia europea, este libro plantea interrogantes y ofrece nuevas fuentes para la comprensión de esta historia. El resultado es un desafiante y novedoso enfoque de la historia de Europa, desde la Ilustración hasta 1920.

mujeres en el cambio sociocultural europeo, de 1780 a 1920

Género e historia

Glenda Sluga traces internationalism through its rise before World War I, its mid-century apogee, and its decline after 9/11. Drawing on archival material and contemporary accounts, this innovative history restores internationalism as essential to understanding nationalism in the twentieth century.

Glenda Sluga

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