Author: Erez Manela
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: anticolonial, nationalism, origins, international, moment, determination, wilsonian
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195176154
ISBN-13: 9780195176155

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 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-Wes

Author: Leela Gandhi
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: politics, friendship, history, culture, radicalism, siã¨cle, communities, anticolonial, thought, fin, affective
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822337150
ISBN-13: 9780822337157