Metadata : Mitrany, David, 1888-1975, Professor of Political Economy
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton BuildingsLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Holding institution (official language):
- LSE Library: The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Postal address:
- 25 Southampton BuildingsLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2A 1PH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7405 7686
- Web address:
- http://www.lse.ac.uk/library
- Reference number:
- Mitrany
- Title:
- Mitrany, David, 1888-1975, Professor of Political Economy
- Title (official language):
- Mitrany, David, 1888-1975, Professor of Political Economy
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mitrany, David, 1888-1975, Professor of Political Economy
- Date(s):
- 1920/1965
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 82 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Professor David Mitrany, [1920-1965], mainly comprising research papers and drafts of published works, notably articles, notes, lecture notes, reviews and index cards relating to international organisation, political science, international relations, functionalism, international law and economics, human rights, federalism and nationalism, as well as material concerning the League of Nations, the United Nations, and peace aims post World War Two; reference material compiled by Mitrany, including bibliographies and working papers; drafts, proofs and offprints of published books and articles, mainly concerning international government; personal correspondence and papers relating to his academic and journalistic work, notably regarding Yale University, the _Manchester Guardian_, Political and Economic Planning, and work during World War One and World War Two.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- David Mitrany, 1888–1975, was born in Bucharest, the son of Jewish parents, Moscu and Jeannette Mitrany. Opportunities for Jews in Romania were limited, so he left in 1908. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1912-1914; undertook war work at the Romanian Legation in London, the Foreign Office and the War Office, 1914-1918; Member, Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Affairs, 1918-1931; Editorial Staff, _Manchester Guardian_, 1919-1922, with special responsibility for foreign affairs; Assistant European Editor, _Economic and Social History of the World War_, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1922-1929; Visiting Professor, Harvard University 1931-1933; Dodge Lecturer, Yale University, 1932; Nielsen Research Professor, Smith College, 1951; Member, British Co-ordinating Committee for International Studies, 1927-1930; Professor in School of Economics and Politics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1933-1939 and 1946-1956; Member, Foreign Research and Press Service, Foreign Office, 1939-1942; Adviser on International Affairs to Board of Unilever & Lever Brothers Ltd, 1943-1962; Member, Executive Committee, Political and Economic Planning; died 1975.Publications:_The functional theory of politics_ (Robertson, for the LSE, 1975); _American interpretations; four political essays_ (Contact Publications, London, 1946); _The effect of the War in south eastern Europe_ (Yale University press, 1936); _Food and freedom_ (Batchworth Press, London, 1954); _Greater Rumania: a study in national ideals_ (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1917); _The land and the peasant in Rumania: the War and agrarian reform, 1917-1921_ (Oxford University press, London, 1930); _Marx against the peasant: a study in social dogmatism _(George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1951); _The problem of international sanctions_ (Humphrey Milford, London, 1925); _The progress of international government _(Allen and Unwin, London, 1933); _The road to security_ (National Peace Council, London, 1944); _Rumania, her history and politics _(1915); _A working peace system_ (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1943); _World unity and the nations_ (London, 1950).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mitrany, David
- Access, restrictions:
- Apply to Archivist.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MITRANY
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- British Library of Political and Economic Science
- Reference number:
- Mitrany
- Title:
- Mitrany, David, 1888-1975, Professor of Political Economy
- Title (official language):
- Mitrany, David, 1888-1975, Professor of Political Economy
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mitrany, David, 1888-1975, Professor of Political Economy
- Date(s):
- 1920/1965
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 82 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Professor David Mitrany, [1920-1965], mainly comprising research papers and drafts of published works, notably articles, notes, lecture notes, reviews and index cards relating to international organisation, political science, international relations, functionalism, international law and economics, human rights, federalism and nationalism, as well as material concerning the League of Nations, the United Nations, and peace aims post World War Two; reference material compiled by Mitrany, including bibliographies and working papers; drafts, proofs and offprints of published books and articles, mainly concerning international government; personal correspondence and papers relating to his academic and journalistic work, notably regarding Yale University, the _Manchester Guardian_, Political and Economic Planning, and work during World War One and World War Two.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- David Mitrany, 1888–1975, was born in Bucharest, the son of Jewish parents, Moscu and Jeannette Mitrany. Opportunities for Jews in Romania were limited, so he left in 1908. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1912-1914; undertook war work at the Romanian Legation in London, the Foreign Office and the War Office, 1914-1918; Member, Labour Party Advisory Committee on International Affairs, 1918-1931; Editorial Staff, _Manchester Guardian_, 1919-1922, with special responsibility for foreign affairs; Assistant European Editor, _Economic and Social History of the World War_, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1922-1929; Visiting Professor, Harvard University 1931-1933; Dodge Lecturer, Yale University, 1932; Nielsen Research Professor, Smith College, 1951; Member, British Co-ordinating Committee for International Studies, 1927-1930; Professor in School of Economics and Politics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1933-1939 and 1946-1956; Member, Foreign Research and Press Service, Foreign Office, 1939-1942; Adviser on International Affairs to Board of Unilever & Lever Brothers Ltd, 1943-1962; Member, Executive Committee, Political and Economic Planning; died 1975.Publications:_The functional theory of politics_ (Robertson, for the LSE, 1975); _American interpretations; four political essays_ (Contact Publications, London, 1946); _The effect of the War in south eastern Europe_ (Yale University press, 1936); _Food and freedom_ (Batchworth Press, London, 1954); _Greater Rumania: a study in national ideals_ (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1917); _The land and the peasant in Rumania: the War and agrarian reform, 1917-1921_ (Oxford University press, London, 1930); _Marx against the peasant: a study in social dogmatism _(George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1951); _The problem of international sanctions_ (Humphrey Milford, London, 1925); _The progress of international government _(Allen and Unwin, London, 1933); _The road to security_ (National Peace Council, London, 1944); _Rumania, her history and politics _(1915); _A working peace system_ (Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1943); _World unity and the nations_ (London, 1950).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mitrany, David
- Access, restrictions:
- Apply to Archivist.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archives.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MITRANY
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- British Library of Political and Economic Science
