The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War

Martin H. Geyer, Johannes Paulmann

Oxford University Press, 2001 - History - 471 pages

This collection of essays by American and European scholars traces the origins of modern internationalism and the emergence of global society in the nineteenth century. It offers a fresh approach to the study of international history by looking at the structural prerequisites of the thrivinginternationalism before the First World War. Thus it links political and social movements trying to reform society and politics by way of transnational co-operation with the process of internationalizing cultural, political, and economic practices. The volume is less concerned with classicaldiplomatic history than with the increased, yet ambivalent, transnational linking of societies. The subjects covered range from the creation of international standards, the search for a monarchical international, and the making of international women's organizations to the emergence of fashionablemeeting places. The book provides a genuine historical perspective on present phenomena.

Contents

• Introduction The Mechanics of Internationalism: 1
• Free Trade Protectionism and the World Economy: 27
• One Language for the World The Metric System International Coinage Gold Standard and the Rise of Internationalism 185: 55
• Passports and the Status of Aliens: 93
• Governmental Internationalism and the Beginning of a New World Order in the Late Nineteenth Century: 121
• Searching for a Royal International The Mechanics of Monarchical Relations in NineteenthCentury Europe: 145
• Workers of the World Unite? Exploring the Enigma of the Second International: 177
• The Making of International Womens Organizations: 205
• Internationalizing Civilization by Dissolving International Society The Status of NonEuropean Territories in Nineteenth: 235
• Nationalism and the Quest for Moral Universalism German Freemasonry 18601914: 259
• The next great task of civilization International Exchange in Popular Science The GermanAmerican Case 18501900: 285
• Harmonicas for the World The Creation and Marketing of a Global Product: 321
• Art knows no Fatherland Internationalism and the Reception of German Art in France in the early Third Republic: 357
• The Rise of Internationalism in Sport: 375
• The Philosophical World Journey in the Nineteenth Century as a Cultural Comparison From Investigation the World to Exp: 405
• Taking the Waters Meeting Places of the Fashionable World: 435
• Notes on Contributors: 458
• Index: 463

About the author

Martin H. Geyer is a Professor of Modern History, University of Munich. Johannes Paulmann is Acting Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Munich.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War; Studies of the German Historic; Studies of the German Historical Institute London
• Editors: Martin H. Geyer, Johannes Paulmann
• Contributors: German Historical Institute (London, England), German Historical Institute (London, England).
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0199202389, 9780199202386
• Length: 471 pages
• Subjects: History / Modern / 19th Century; History / Modern / 20th Century / General; Political Science / International Relations / General