Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism

This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars, where countless future leaders of Third World countries spent formative stints. Exploring the local social context in which these emergent activists moved, the study delves into assassination plots allegedly hatched by Chinese students, demonstrations by Latin American nationalists, and the everyday lives of Algerian, Senegalese, and Vietnamese workers. On the basis of police reports and other primary sources, the book foregrounds the role of migration and interaction as driving forces enabling challenges to the imperial world order, weaving together the stories of peoples of three continents. Drawing on the scholarship of twentieth-century imperial, international, and global history as well as migration, race, and ethnicity in France, it ultimately proposes a new understanding of the roots of the Third World idea.

Author: Michael Goebel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/25/2015
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781107073050

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2016

About the Author
Goebel, Michael: - Michael Goebel is a historian of modern Latin America in its global connections. He is currently Professor of Latin American and Global History at Freie Universität Berlin.