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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816069303321

Titolo

Competing visions of world order : global moments and movements, 1880s-1930s / / edited by Sebastain Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36277-8

9786611362775

0-230-60428-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

The Palgrave series in transnational history

Altri autori (Persone)

ConradSebastian

SachsenmaierDominic

Disciplina

327.09/034

Soggetti

World politics - 19th century

World politics - 1900-1945

International cooperation - History - 19th century

International cooperation - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s; Part One: Conceptions of World Order and Global Consciousness in the Imperialist Age; Chapter 2: Global Civil Society and the Forces of Empire: The Salvation Army, British Imperialism, and the "Prehistory" of NGOs (ca. 1880-1920); Chapter 3: The Common Grounds of Conflict: Racial Visions of World Order 1880-1940; Chapter 4: World Orders in World Histories before and after World War I

Part Two: World War I as a Global Moment: Implications for Conceptions of World OrderChapter 5: Dawn of a New Era: The "Wilsonian Moment" in Colonial Contexts and the Transformation of World Order, 1917-1920; Chapter 6: Alternative Visions of World Order in the Aftermath of World War I: Global Perspectives on Chinese Approaches; Part Three: Movements Toward Alternative World Order; Chapter 7: Global Mobility and Nationalism: Chinese Migration and the Reterritorialization of



Belonging, 1880-1910

Chapter 8: A Global Anti-Western Moment? The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization, and Asian ModernityChapter 9: Bringing the "Black Atlantic" into Global History: The Project of Pan-Africanism; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.