Neutrality in twentieth-century Europe intersections of science, culture, and politics after the First World War / edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, and Sven Widmalm.
| Other author | Lettevall, Rebecka. |
| Other author | Somsen, Geert. |
| Other author | Widmalm, Sven. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. |
| Description | ix, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in cultural history, 1404-7586 ; 18 Routledge studies in cultural history ; 18. ^A517008 |
| Contents | Introduction / Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, and Sven Widmalm -- Probing the master narrative of scientific internationalism : nationals and neutrals in the 1920s / Brigitte Schroeder -- "Holland's calling" : Dutch scientists' self-fashioning as international mediators / Geert Somsen -- "A superior type of universal civilisation" : science as politics in Sweden, 1917-1926 / Sven Widmalm -- "Has the Swedish Academy of Sciences seen nothing, heard nothing, and understood nothing?" : the First World War, biased neutrality, and the Nobel Prizes in science / Robert Marc Friedman -- Pursuing common cultural ideals : Niels Bohr, neutrality, and international scientific collaboration during the inter-war period / Henrik Knudsen and Henry Nielsen -- Caught-up by politics : the Solvay Councils on Physics and the trials of neutrality / Kenneth Bertrams -- The scientific construction of Swiss neutrality / Daniel Speich Chasse -- A castle in the centre : the first Czechoslovak republic and European cooperation (1918-1938) / Carlos Reijnen -- Prague zionism, the Czechoslovak state, and the rise of German national socialism : the figure of Max Brod (1914-1933) / Gaëlle Vassogne -- Legitimacy through neutrality : resources of journalism in the international press visit to Sweden in 1923 / Patrik Lundell -- Of twins and time: scientists, intellectual cooperation, and the League of Nations / Jimena Canales -- Eye-deep in Hell : Heinrich Lammasch, the Confederation of Neutral States, and Austrian neutrality, 1899-1920 / Georg Cavallar -- Nobel science of peace : Norwegian neutrality, internationalism and the Nobel Peace Prize / Vidar Enebakk -- Neutrality and humanitarianism : Fridtjof Nansen and the Nansen passports / Rebecka Lettevall. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011048639 |
| ISBN | 9780415893770 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415893771 (alk. paper) |