Neutrality in twentieth-century Europe
Subtitle: intersections of science, culture, and politics after the First World War
By: edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen and Sven Widmalm
Series: Routledge studies in cultural history -- 18
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415893770; 9780203116791
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Neutrality; International cooperation; Nobel Prizes; Influence; Science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, and Sven Widmalm; title: Probing the master narrative of scientific internationalism : nationals and neutrals in the 1920s / Brigitte Schroeder; title: "Holland's calling" : Dutch scientists' self-fashioning as international mediators / Geert Somsen; title: "A superior type of universal civilisation" : science as politics in Sweden, 1917-1926 / Sven Widmalm; title: "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; title: Pursuing common cultural ideals : Niels Bohr, neutrality, and international scientific collaboration during the inter-war period / Henrik Knudsen and Henry Nielsen; title: Caught-up by politics : the Solvay Councils on Physics and the trials of neutrality / Kenneth Bertrams; title: The scientific construction of Swiss neutrality / Daniel Speich Chasse; title: A castle in the centre : the first Czechoslovak republic and European cooperation (1918-1938) / Carlos Reijnen; title: Prague zionism, the Czechoslovak state, and the rise of German national socialism : the figure of Max Brod (1914-1933) / Gaëlle Vassogne; title: Legitimacy through neutrality : resources of journalism in the international press visit to Sweden in 1923 / Patrik Lundell; title: Of twins and time:  scientists, intellectual cooperation, and the League of Nations / Jimena Canales; title: Eye-deep in Hell : Heinrich Lammasch, the Confederation of Neutral States, and Austrian neutrality, 1899-1920 / Georg Cavallar; title: Nobel science of peace : Norwegian neutrality, internationalism and the Nobel Peace Prize / Vidar Enebakk; title: Neutrality and humanitarianism : Fridtjof Nansen and the Nansen passports / Rebecka Lettevall.