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List of Abbreviations - vii -- Acknowledgements - ix -- Preface (Daniel Laqua) - xi -- Introduction: Conceptualising Transnational Thought and Action between the Wars (Patricia Clavin) - 1 -- Part A: Infrastructures and Ideas of Internationalism - 15 -- 1. Liberal Internationalist Approaches to Science and Technology in Interwar Britain and the US (Waqar Zaidi) - 17 -- 2. Experts for Peace: Structures and Motivations of Philanthropic Internationalism in the Interwar Years (Katharina Rietzler) - 45 -- 3. In between 'Vague Theory' and 'Sound Practical Lines': Transnational Municipalism in Interwar Europe (Stefan Couperus) - 67 Part B: The League of Nations and the Efforts of Non-State Actors - 91 -- 4. 'The Breath of a New Life'? : British Anti-Slavery Activism and the League of Nations (Amalia Ribi) - 93 -- 5. Internationalism in the Economic and Financial Organisation of the League of Nations (Yann Decorzant) - 115 -- 1. 'Credit or Chaos?': The Austrian Stabilisation Programme of 1923 and the League of Nations (Frank Beyersdorf) - 134 Part C: The Transnational and National Contexts of Advocacy - 159 -- 2. 'A Real Meeting of the Women of the East and West': Women and Internationalism in the Interwar Period (Marie Sandell) - 161 -- 3. The Lifeblood of the League? Voluntary Associations and League of Nations Activism in Britain (Helen McCarthy ) - 187 -- 4. Reconciliation and the Post-War Order: The Place of the Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte in Interwar Pacifist (Daniel Laqua) - 209 -- Notes on the Contributors - 239 -- Index - 243.

How did intellectuals and politicians confirm or reinforce national categories, even when they ostensibly promoted visions of an international community? The article addresses this question through a case study of the League of Nations' mechanisms for intellectual cooperation. After a brief discussion of institutional aspects, namely the establishment of League-affiliated committees and institutes in the 1920s, the article focuses on the interplay of transnational and national practices. National actors -- for instance intellectuals and organisations from Central and Eastern Europe -- targeted the League bodies, evoking both cultural internationalism and national interests. Furthermore, nationhood was projected at international congresses -- sometimes openly, sometimes in more subtle terms -- with the pronouncements of delegates from Fascist Italy providing an interesting case in point. Finally, the article discusses how individuals sought to reconcile the multilayered nature of their activities; to this end, it considers several figures who were involved in the League's efforts to foster a 'societe des esprits'. Adapted from the source document.