Global Biographies

Laura Almagor is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History at the University of SheffieldHaakon Ikonomou is a Gerda Henkel Fellow at the Saxo Institute, University of CopenhagenGunvor Simonsen is Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen

• 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 Magnúsdóttir3 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 normal5 ‘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 Blumi7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) and the United States’ imperial expansion – Stefan Eklöf Amirell8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908–14 – Ozan OzavciPART III: Space and scales 9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904–61) – Laura Almagor10 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 Auberer12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books and family of Adrian Bentzon – Gunvor SimonsenIndex