The Wilsonian Moment Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
ISBN: 9780195378535 | 0195378539
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/9/2009
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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... MORE
| Note on Names | p. xvii |
| Introduction: A Spring of Upheaval | p. 3 |
| The Emergence of the Wilsonian Moment | p. 15 |
| Self-Determination for Whom? | p. 19 |
| Fighting for the Mind of Mankind | p. 35 |
| The Internationalization of Nationalism | p. 55 |
| President Wilson Arrives in Cairo | p. 63 |
| Laying India's Ailments before Dr. Wilson | p. 77 |
| China's Place among N... MORE | p. 99 |
| Seizing the Moment in Seoul | p. 119 |
| The Failure of Liberal Anticolonialism | p. 137 |
| The 1919 Revolution | p. 141 |
| From Paris to Amritsar | p. 159 |
| Empty Chairs at Versailles | p. 177 |
| A World Safe for Empire? | p. 197 |
| Conclusion: Toward a "Family of Nations" | p. 215 |
| Note on Sources and Abbreviations | p. 227 |
| Notes | p. 229 |
| Bibliography | p. 285 |
| Index | p. 317 |
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Erez Manela is Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, Harvard University
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