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The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
Erez Manela
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Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJF; HBLW; JPFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had called for "a free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims," giving equal weight would be given to the opinions of the colonized peoples and the colonial powers. Among those nations now paying close attention to Wilson's words and actions were the budding nationalist leaders of four disparate non-Western societies - Egypt, India, China, ... Read more
During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had called for "a free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims," giving equal weight would be given to the opinions of the colonized peoples and the colonial powers. Among those nations now paying close attention to Wilson's words and actions were the budding nationalist leaders of four disparate non-Western societies - Egypt, India, China, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195378535
SKU
V9780195378535
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About Erez Manela
Erez Manela is Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, Harvard University
Reviews for The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
Manela has produced an immensely rich and important work of comparative politics.
Pankaj Mishra, London Review of Books
This book will undoubtedly be definitive.... Manela conclusively shows that Wilson, who had little interest in liberating colonial peoples, inadvertently planted among colonial peoples the seeds of national self-determination and disillusionment with a West that saw this concept applying to ... Read more
Pankaj Mishra, London Review of Books
This book will undoubtedly be definitive.... Manela conclusively shows that Wilson, who had little interest in liberating colonial peoples, inadvertently planted among colonial peoples the seeds of national self-determination and disillusionment with a West that saw this concept applying to ... Read more