"This is an excellent collection which brings together up-to-date scholarship on internationalism, intellectual transfers and the role of experts therein. It sheds light on the creation of transnational networks and international organizations, and on the individuals or ideas that sustained them....Driven by substantial primary research, the manuscript offers fresh insights and adds flesh to the broader conceptual discussions on 'transnational history'." - Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University
"This is an excellent volume in almost every respect....It is an original contribution to the...
"This is an excellent collection which brings together up-to-date scholarship on internationalism, intellectual transfers and the role of experts t...
Building on the new critical historiography about the evolution of the European state, the book analyses how administrators, scientists, popular publicists and other actors tried to redefine the realms of state action in the "Sattelzeit" (Koselleck). By focussing on the specific strategies of these actors and on the transnational circulation and dissemination of state related knowledge itself, the contributors of the book highlight the fluidity and the interconnections of the European debate in the crucial period of the development of the modern nation-state and its administration. They study...
Building on the new critical historiography about the evolution of the European state, the book analyses how administrators, scientists, popular publi...
