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Who shaped the international order in the first half of the 20th century? A look into five book indices
Date: 5 October 2025
Source: The indices of five selected monographs*
Funded: Part of the European Research Council (ERC) grant
ECOINT, Grant No. 885285
As part of a literature review of monographs that, in one way or other, deal with the negotiation of the international order in the first half of the 20th century, I was keen to see which persons the authors of five selected books considered worth mentioning for their specific topics.
This interactive visualisation shows the names of people listed in the indices** of the selected books. Each circle represents a person. The color encodes the gender of the person.
- "in 2/3/4/5 books”-button: Use the “in 2/3/4/5 books”-buttons to highlight people who appear in multiple books.
- Book label: Click a book label to display the list of people mentioned in that work.
- Circle: Hover over a ciricle to display information.
- Gender-buttons: Click to show only women, only men, or all persons.
- Clavin, Patricia (2013). Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
- Martin, Jamie (2022). The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Mazower, Mark (2009). No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Slobodian, Quinn (2013). Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalismm. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Sluga, Glenda (2013). Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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