“Abhorrent to English Ears”: Anti-Intellectualism and the League of Nations in Interwar Britain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. HIC Preface for Vol. 3 V
3. Contents VII
4. Section I: Individual Articles
5. “Abhorrent to English Ears”: Anti-Intellectualism and the League of Nations in Interwar Britain 1
6. Survivors of Nazi Persecution, Refugees, Knowledge Actors: The Cultural Translation of Knowledge in an Effort to Document Nazi Atrocities, 1945–1946 25
7. Defending the Knowledge Monopoly: The U.S. Patent Office, Propaganda, and the Centennial Celebration of the Patent Act of 1836 49
8. Pathologizing the Economy: “Baumol’s Cost Disease” and the Circulation of Economic Knowledge in Sweden 73
9. Memoirs as Postmemory: Adorno, Lazarsfeld, and the US Radio Project 97
10. Section II: Experimental Spaces
11. Experimental Spaces: Knowledge Production and its Environments in the Long Nineteenth Century 125
12. Talking about the Weather: Producing Climate Knowledge as Colonial Practice in Intentional Communities in the Americas, 1820s–1840s 137
13. Experimental Discourse and Fourierist Settlements in the 1840s and 1850s 159
14. Experimenting for Empire: Plant Health as an Agricultural Problem in German East Africa, Togo and Cameroon, 1905–1914 181
15. Climates of Migration: Science, Race, and Agricultural Diplomacy between Italy and the United States, 1895–1916 205
16. Knowledge in Motion: Research and Experimentation at Hellerau’s School for Rhythmik 227
17. Section III: Engaging the Field
18. Socio-Epistemic Networks: A Framework for History of Knowledge 253
19. R. S. Crane and the Invention of the Humanities: The Formation of Historical Narratives of Knowledge in the Mid-Twentieth Century 275
20. Interrogating Epistemologies: Decolonizing Knowledge in Academia and Beyond 295
21. Contributors 323