University of Heidelberg

Standardisation

Melvil Dewey, Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets (Amherst, Mass.: Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1876).

International Meridian Conference, “International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day : Protocols of the Proceedings” (Washington, D.C., 1884).

Paul Otlet, Traité de documentation: le livre sur le livre, théorie et pratique (Bruxelles: Mundaneum, 1934). for more webresources on Otlet see: Références sur Paul Otlet  

World Health Organization, “International Classification of Diseases”. 

World Orders

The Avalon Project, “The Covenant of the League of Nations”.

League of Nations, Report and Proceedings of the World Economic Conference, 2 vols. (Geneva: Imprimerie de la Tribune de Geneve, 1927).

League of Nations and James W. Angell, “The Program for the World Economic Conference : the Experts' Agenda and other Documents” (Boston, 1933).

League of Nations, L'anneé de la Societe des Nations, L'anneé de la Societe des Nations (Geneva: Société des Nations, 1927).

LONSEA – League of Nations Search Engine, “Searching the Globe through the Lenses of the League of Nations”.

Nagy, William Foss, and A. B. Austin, The World conference in caricature, pictured by Nagy at the World economic conference, London, 1933 (London: Soncino Press, 1933).

Hargreaves Parkinson, Everyman's Guide to the World Economic Conference (London: News-Chronicle Publications Dept., 1933).

Paul Samuel Reinsch, Public International Unions : their Work and Organization, a Study in International Administrative Law (Boston; London: Pub. for the World Peace Foundation, Ginn and Company, 1911).

Bernard Shaw, Geneva : a Fancied Page of History in Three Acts.

Benno von Toll, Die internationalen Bureaux der allgemeinen völkerrechtlichen Verwaltungsvereine (Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1910).

The Avalon Project, “Treaty Concerning the Formation of a General Postal Union, Concluded Between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Spain, The United States of America, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey, 1875,”.

———, “Treaty between the United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal, Signed at Washington February 6, 1922 [1],” .

———, “Treaty Between the United States of America, the British Empire, France, and Japan, Signed at Washington December 13, 1921,”.

War and Peace

Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch and R. C. Long, The Future of War in its Technical, Economic, and Political Relations : Is War now Impossible? (New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899).

Andrew Carnegie, A League of Peace, International Conciliation, 3 (New York City: American Assiciation for International Conciliation, 1907).

Alfred Hermann Fried, Das internationale Leben der Gegenwart (Leipzig: Teubner, 1908).

———, Der Weltprotest gegen den Versailler Frieden (Leipzig: Reinhold, 1920).

———, Handbuch der Friedensbewegung... von Alfred H. Fried. 2e... Auflage (Leipzig: Reichenbach, 1911).

Permanent Court of International Justice et al., Pax mundi : Livre d'or de la paix (Paris: Paxunis, 1932).

Alfred Nobel, “Full Text of Alfred Nobel's Will,”.

James Brown Scott, ed. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences, Translation of the Official Texts (New York: Oxford University Press, 1920).

William Thomas Stead, Courrier de la conférence de la paix (Amsterdam: Maas & Van Suchtelen, 1907).

Berta von Suttner, Die Waffen nieder! Vol. 1, Vol. 2.

World Views

William N. Armstrong, Around the World with a King (London: Heinemann, 1904).

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899).

George Creel, “Public Opinion in War Time,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 78(1918).

———, How we Advertised America : the First Telling of the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information that Carried the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe (New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1920).

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Crime of the Congo (London: Hutchinson, 1909).

Jules Verne, Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts jours/Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

William Thomas Stead, The Americanization of the World (New York, London: H. Markley, 1902).

Mark Twain, King Leopold's soliloquy : a defense of his Congo rule (Boston, Mass.: P.R. Warren, 1905).

Images

Standardisation

Mark R. Leach, “Meta-Synthesis : Database of Periodic Tables,”.

“Otto Neurath | Pictorial Statistics,”.

Otto Neurath, “Universal Jargon and Terminology,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 41(1941).

———, International Picture Language : the First Rules of Isotype (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1936).

World Visions

“Virtual Shanghai. Shanghai Urban Space in Time,”.

Associations Union of International, Corbusier Le, and Pierre Jeanneret, Mundaneum : le centre mondial, scientifique, documentaire et éducatif, au service des Associations internationales, qu'il est proposé d'établir à Genève pour compléter les institutions de la plus grande Société des Nations et commémorer en 1930 dix années d'efforts vers la paix et la collaboration ([Bruxelles]1928).

Illustrierter Katalog der Pariser Industrieausstellung von 1867,  (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1867).

World-Conscience: An International Society for the Creation of a World-Centre to House International iInterests and Unite Peoples and Nations for the Attainment of Peace and Progress upon Broader Humanitarian Lines,  (Rome: Communications Office Hendrik C. Andersen, 1913).

Changing Diplomatic Worlds

Jean Baptiste  Isabey and Jean Godefroy, “Der Wiener Kongress unter der Leitung des Fürsten Clemens von Metternich (1814/15),” (1819).

League of Nations Photo Archive.

“Nansenpassport.jpg (JPEG-Grafik, 255x375 Pixel),”  upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Nansenpassport.jpg.

New Modernism

“Paul Renner - Font Designer of Futura and Plak,”  www.linotype.com/762/paulrenner.html.

Symbolising the World: World’s Fair Pictorial Language

“File:Central Dome of the Gallery des Machines Exposition Universelle de Paris 1889 by Louis Beroud 1852 1930.jpg - Wikimedia Commons,”  commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Dome_of_the_Gallery_des_Machines_Exposition_Universelle_de_Paris_1889_by_Louis_Beroud_1852_1930.jpg.

“ExpoMuseum / History Overview,”  expomuseum.com/history/.

“Tasveer Ghar: Digital Archive of South Asian Popular Visual Culture,”  tasveergharindia.net.

Transcultural Death

“Harbin - Jewish Cemetry,”  www.zegk.uni-heidelberg.de/hist/ausstellungen/harbin/cemetery.html.

Sounds

Inventing Global sounds

Otto Abraham et al., Walzenaufnahmen japanischer Musik Wax cylinder recordings of Japanese music, 1901-1913 (Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 2003).

Otto Abraham and M. von Hornbostel Erich, “Studien uber das Tonsystem und die Musik der Japaner,” Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 4, no. 2 (1903).

Acte final : Conférence intergouvernementale pour la conclusion d'une convention internationale concernant l'emploi de la radiodiffusion dans l'intérêt de la paix, Genève, 17-23 sept. 1936 = Final Act, Série de publications de la Société des Nations, 12. B. 1936, 11 (Genève: Société des Nations, 1936).

British Library, “Early Record Catalogues: Archival Sound Recordings,” accessed March 12, 2011, sounds.bl.uk/Browse.aspx.

“International Morse Code,”  www.godfreydykes.info/international%20morse%20code.pdf.