Table of Contents
Introduction – Laura Almagor, Haakon A. Ikonomou and Gunvor Simonsen
PART I: Time and periodisation
1 Wilsonian moments: Thanassis Aghnides between empire and nation state – Haakon A. Ikonomou
2 Making sense of 1956: experiencing and negotiating the socialist project in Iceland – Rósa Magnúsdóttir
3 Colonial masculinity: monarchy, military, colonialism, fascism and decolonisation – Diana M. Natermann
4 Jewish medical students in Vienna between two world wars – Natalia Aleksiun
PART II: Exceptional normal
5 ‘Just an African radical’? A Zambian at the edge of the third world – Ismay Milford
6 Exceptionally normal (post)Ottomans: how failure shaped the futures of Balkan heroes – Isa Blumi
7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) and the United States’ imperial expansion – Stefan Eklöf Amirell
8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908–14 – Ozan Ozavci
PART III: Space and scales
9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904–61) – Laura Almagor
10 Transnational agitator and union activist: James W. Ford and the communist push into the Black Atlantic – Holger Weiss
11 A woman with a typewriter: the international career of Dorothea Weger – Benjamin Auberer
12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books and family of Adrian Bentzon – Gunvor Simonsen
Index