Daniel Gorman (Ontario University of Waterloo)

Uniting Nations

Britons and Internationalism, 1945-1970

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Produktbeschreibung

Uniting Nations is a comparative study of the personal histories and interconnected lives and careers of the Britons who entered the international service after 1945. Drawing on research from archival collections, Daniel Gorman provides a distinctive human perspective on post-war international history and transnational voluntary networks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 150mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781316512975
• ISBN-10: 1316512975
• Artikelnr.: 63656586

Autorenporträt

Daniel Gorman is Professor of History at University of Waterloo. He is the author of International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century (2017), The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s (2012), and Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging (2007). He is the co-editor with Martin Gutmann of Before the SDGs: A Historical Companion to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. International lives: Britons at the UN Secretariat
2. Global security, peacekeeping, and civilian aid
3. Global social governance
4. The dreamers: The world parliament movement
5. An experiment in international cooperation: The Friends Ambulance Unit Postwar and International Service, 1946-1959
6. The Movement for Colonial Freedom
Conclusion.