INTERNATIONALISM IN THE AGE OF NATIONALISM

The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism. To the twent y-first-century historian, the period from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War is distinctive for its national ist preoccupations, while internationalism is often construed as the purview of ideologues and idealists, a remnant of Enlightenment -era narratives of the progress of humanity into a global community. Glenda Sluga argues to the contrary, that the concepts of natio nalism a...[Llegir més]