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Transregional Connections in the History of East-Central Europe

Transregional Connections in the History of East-Central Europe

Transregional connections play a fundamental role in the history of East-Central Europe. This volume explores this connectivity by showing how people from eastern and central parts of Europe have positioned themselves within global processes while, in turn, also shaping them. The contributions examine different fields of action such as economy, arts, international regulations and law, development aid, and migration, focusing on the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War. The authors uncover spaces of interaction and emphasize that internal and external entanglements have established East-Central Europe as a distinct region. Understanding the connectedness of this subregion is stimulating for the historiography of East-Central Europe as it is for the field of global history.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Moving from Transnational to Transregional Connections? East-Central Europe in Global Contexts

Part I: Positioning in Global Entanglements

Chapter 2. Eastern Europe in the Wheat Crises of Globalization and Deglobalization (1870–1939)

Chapter 3. Informal Networks and Ordinary People’s Agency: A Microhistory of Global Migrations from Upper Silesia, 1830s–1930s

Chapter 4. “162 Artists from over 50 Countries”: Artistic Networking in the Mainstream and on the Margins

Part II: Partaking in International Politics

Chapter 5. Transnational Drug Trafficking and the German Embrace of International Narcotics Law from the Kaiserreich to the Nazis

Chapter 6. In the Orbit of the League of Nations: International Law Debates and Networks in the Interwar Period

Chapter 7. The Polyglot Background of Eastern Europe’s Jewish International Juristsand Its Talmudic Legal Origins

Part III: Inter-Regional Connections

Chapter 8. Trade Connections between Eastern European Regions and the Spanish Atlantic during the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 9. Migrants from East-Central Europe in South America: Discourses and Structures between Mission, Pogrom Escape, Human Trafficking, and “Whitening”

Chapter 10. East German Friendship Brigades and Specialists in Angola: A Socialist Globalization Project in the Global Cold War

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