Poland and the Making of Transnational Social Science
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Poland and the Making of Transnational Social Science

Eastern Europe, the United States, and the Wilsonian Moment

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  2. English
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Poland and the Making of Transnational Social Science

Eastern Europe, the United States, and the Wilsonian Moment

About this book

This book explores how American internationalism and Eastern European social science influenced and reshaped each other in the 1930s, giving rise to the phenomenon of transnational social science. By tracing interactions between Polish and Jewish scholars and American internationalists, it reveals how politically relevant knowledge-on nations, nationalism, and migration-evolved into the area studies on Eastern Europe that emerged at American universities during the early Cold War.

Following Woodrow Wilson's interest in Eastern Europe, a group of American internationalists-primarily linked to Columbia University, think tanks, and philanthropists-worked to establish a network of experts in the region. In their effort to support peace and democracy, they sought to advance social-scientific knowledge of Eastern Europe's contested borderlands. Poland and the Making of Transnational Social Science explores how interactions between scholars-Polish and Jewish intellectuals and their American counterparts-shaped interwar transnational thought on self-determination, nationalism and national indifference, anti-Semitism and racial exclusion, migration, and assimilation. This knowledge circulation played a key role in the evolution of 1930s social science and its transition into American Cold War area studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Key Protagonists
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Constructing Expertise
  12. 2 National Indifference and Exercises in Self-Determination
  13. 3 Constructing Networks and Facing Polish Dilemmas
  14. 4 Borderlands and Nationalism
  15. 5 Jews Transcending Borders
  16. 6 Crossing Borders
  17. Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. Introduction
  20. 1 Constructing Expertise
  21. 2 National Indifference and Exercises in Self-Determination
  22. 3 Constructing Networks and Facing Polish Dilemmas
  23. 4 Borderlands and Nationalism
  24. 5 Jews Transcending Borders
  25. 6 Crossing Borders
  26. Conclusion
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index