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.
"Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal -- in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual...
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Table of 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.