Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism

Acknowledgments

A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s I have accrued an extensive geography of national and international debts in the writing of this book to, first and foremost, the Australian Research Council , the wonderful national funding body that boldly supports international excellence in the humanities as a national benefit. Without it Australia would be an intellectually poorer and less interesting place. So would the Department of History and the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney, a disciplinary congregation that outshines its national peers and regularly finds itself in the top ranks of international tables. Thank you to internationalized colleagues, especially Barbara Caine, Marco Duranti, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Stephen Garton, Moira Gatens, Chris Hilliard, Julia Horne, Julia Kindt, Jennifer Milam, Dirk Moses, Ros Pesman, Shane White, the International Society research cluster, especially Dany Celermajer, and the best reading group in the world (you know who you are). In Melbourne , I owe Roland Burke, Kate Darian-Smith, and Marilyn Lake, at least. Likemanyinternationalhistorians,Iexistinavirtualsocietyofintellectual networks and ideas. I am indebted to Akira Iriye, the Harvard historian who has almost single-handedly legitimated the historical study of internationalism . Where would any international historian be these days without Iriye—as mentor and friend? Or without Jens Boel, whose archival and intellectual role at UNESCO in the support of the history of international organizations is the benchmark for archivists the world over. The International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO was his idea, and it provided me with many years of stimulating settings and collegiality. Among those colleagues count the model intellectual and font of wisdom on all things international, Emma Rothschild, and the genial and gifted, and much missed, Ilya Gaiduk. The primary research for this book was undertaken with the kind help of librarians and archivists at the following institutions: the League of Nations Archive and UN Archives in Geneva and New York; UNESCO; Butler 210 Acknowledgments Library, Columbia University; New York Public Library; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University; Young Research Library, UCLA; Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; Churchill College , Cambridge; Archives Nationales and Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris; National Archives, National Women’s Library, and LSE Library, London ; Fondren Library, Woodson Research Center, Rice University; Barr Library, Adelaide University; Flinders University; and the Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek, Stockholm. Some of the thinking in this book was worked through in previously published essays, including “UNESCO and the (One) World of Julian Huxley,” Journal of World History 21, no. 3 (2010): 393–418; “The Transformation of International Institutions: Global Shock as Cultural Shock,” in The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s, ed. N. Ferguson et al. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010); and “Was the Twentieth Century the Great Age of Internationalism?” (Hancock Lecture, 2009), in The Australian Academy of Humanities Proceedings 2009 (Canberra, 2010), 157–74. The ideas in this book have also been rehearsed in numerous fora—at the UNESCO conference at King’s College, Cambridge, in 2008; at the Australian Academy of Humanities as the Hancock Lecture for 2009; at the Cambridge Economic history seminar (thank you Tim Harper, William Reilly, and Emma Rothschild); with Sydney History department graduate students in the European History seminar; the Oxford European Studies seminar (thank you Jane Caplan, Patricia Clavin, and Anne Deighton); the EUI (thanks Sebastian Conrad); at the Bologna-Sydney workshop on the History of Twentieth Century Internationalism (funded by the Australian Academy of Humanities , with the always-stimulating collaboration of Patrizia Dogliani); and with my colleagues at Sydney named above, and many others. Thank you David Armitage for the emails, Peter Mandler for the ear, and Gilles Pecout for the empathy. A special nod to Alex, Andrew, Armen, and Eppie, who indulged my writing of this book while they were writing their own international histories ; to my students in HSTY2691 who lived the argument as it took shape; to all my research assistants for putting up with my disorder, especially Roderic Campbell, Juliet Fleisch, Olivian Cha, and Louise McLeod. Usha Nair, of the Acknowledgments 211 All India Women’s Alliance, was extremely generous with her time and help. And in its last days, Marigold Black saved me. Thank you finally Liang Pan and Sunil Amrith for much-needed regional expertise, and kindness; Madeleine Herren...