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

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1. Frontmatter I
2. On the Series V
3. Contents VII
4. 1 Introduction: Moving from Transnational to Transregional Connections? East- Central Europe in Global Contexts 1
5. Part I: Positioning in Global Entanglements
6. 2 Eastern Europe in the Wheat Crises of Globalization and Deglobalization (1870–1939) 37
7. 3 Informal Networks and Ordinary People’s Agency: A Microhistory of Global Migrations from Upper Silesia, 1830s–1930s 85
8. 4 “162 Artists from over 50 Countries”: Artistic Networking in the Mainstream and on the Margins 113
9. Part II: Partaking in International Politics
10. 5 Transnational Drug Trafficking and the German Embrace of International Narcotics Law from the Kaiserreich to the Nazis 135
11. 6 In the Orbit of the League of Nations: International Law Debates and Networks in the Interwar Period 159
12. 7 The Polyglot Background of Eastern Europe’s Jewish International Jurists and Its Talmudic Legal Origins 191
13. Part III: Inter-Regional Connections
14. 8 Trade Connections between Eastern European Regions and the Spanish Atlantic during the Eighteenth Century 217
15. 9 Migrants from East-Central Europe in South America: Discourses and Structures between Mission, Pogrom Escape, Human Trafficking, and “Whitening” 259
16. 10 East German Friendship Brigades and Specialists in Angola: A Socialist Globalization Project in the Global Cold War 291
17. List of Contributors 325
18. Index 329