Internationalism Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World : The Pasts of the Present Series Editorsâ Preface Acknowledgements Contents Editors and Contributors Pasts to Be Unveiled: The Interconnections Between the International and the Imperial Part I Internationalism(s) in an Imperial World: the Interwar Years Towards a Social History of International Organisations: The ILO and the Internationalisation of Western Social Expertise (1919â1949) From Reformist Networks to the Transnational Space of Social Reform International Expertise or Denationalised National Knowledge The Challenge of Social Imperialism: The National Socialist Model Circulation or Exportation of International Social Knowledge Conclusion Internationalism and Nationalism in the League of Nationsâ Work for Intellectual Cooperation The Establishment of International Bodies for Intellectual Cooperation National Committees and the Language of Internationalism International Congresses and the Projection of Nationhood Intellectuals in International Organisations Working for International Organisations Conclusion: Nationalism Internationalism Cosmopolitanism A League of Empires: Imperial Political Imagination and Interwar Internationalisms Introduction The Labours of the Imperial Civilisation A âColonial Science Made of Comparisonsâ An Exemplary Debate Rethinking a Knowledgeable Government The Experts in (Inter)Nationalism and Imperialism Conclusion The Rise of a Humanitarian Superpower: American NGOs and International Relief 1917â1945 American International Relief Interdependencies and Internationalisation Conclusion Depression Development: The Interwar Origins of a Global US Modernization Agenda Part II Imperialism(s) and International Institutions: the Aftermath of World War II Population Geopolitics and International Organizations in the Mid Twentieth Century Population the League and the UN: A Twentieth Century Map Population and Peaceful Change Population and Early UNESCO Conclusion Re mapping the Borders of Imperial Health: The World Health Organization and the International Politics of Regionalization in French North Africa 1945â1956 Decentralization and the Creation of the WHO Regions French North Africa and the Problem of Empire at the WHO The French Case for a European North Africa Challenging the Colonial Paradigm at the WHO Defining Criteria Defending Empire Conclusion âOne of Those Too Rare Examplesâ: The International Labour Organization the Colonial Question and Forced Labour (1961â1963) Labour Policies and Anti Colonialism at the ILO The Portuguese Strike Back: Forced Labour and Postcolonial Worlds The ILO as an Autonomous Actor: The Dynamics of Supervision and Reform Conclusion Part III Imperial Resiliencies in the Post colonial World Order The Decolonization of Development: Rural Development in India Before and After 1947 Introduction Hunger Food and Agricultural Development: Building the Indian Nation Colonial Development: Raiffeisen Cooperatives in India Cooperatives: A Cure All for Indiaâs Problems Conclusion The Anvil of Internationalism: The United Nations and Anglo American Relations During the Debate Over Katanga 1960â1963 An Unprecedented Crisis American Anti colonialism in the Congo The February Resolution Implementing the Resolution Conclusion ââAn Assembly of Peoples in Struggleâ: How the Cold War Made Latin America Part of the âThird Worldââ Globalisation and Internationalism Beyond the North Atlantic: Soviet Brazilian Encounters and Interactions During the Cold War Convergence from the East: Promoting Soviet Modernity in Developmentalist Brazil Convergence from the South: Developmentalist Brazilâs Interests in the Soviet Union Authoritarian Entanglements: Soviet Internationalism and the Brazilian Military Regime in the 1960s and 1970s Cultural Entanglements: Brazilian Popular Entertainment in the Soviet Union Democratisation and Expansion of Contacts in the 1980s and 1990s Author Index