1916 in Global Context: An anti-Imperial moment (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)

"The year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was the revolutionary counterpart to the later diplomatic attempt to construct a new world order in the so-called Wilsonian moment. Chief among such events was the Easter Rising in Ireland, an occurrence that took on worldwide significance as a challenge to the established order. This is the first collection of specialist studies that aims at interpreting the global significance of the year 1916 in the decline of empires."--Provided by publisher MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 10 Notes on Contributors 12 Acknowledgements 16 SECTION I: Transnational and Comparative Approaches to 1916 18 1 Globalising the Easter Rising: 1916 and the Challenge to Empires 20 2 The Easter Rising and the Changing Character of Irregular Warfare 35 SECTION II: The Atlantic World 46 3 Echoes of the Rising in Quebec’s Conscription Crisis: The French Canadian Press and the Irish Revolution between 1916 and 1918 48 4 The Great American Protest: African Americans and the Great Migration 66 5 Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian Nationalism, and the Irish Revolution: The View from New York, 1914–1920 79 6 Johannesburg’s Green Flag: The Contemporaneity of the Easter Rising and the 1922 Rand Rebellion 93 SECTION III: North Africa, Asia and the Pacific 108 7 1916 in the Middle East and the Global War for Empire 110 8 “A Tempest in a British Tea Pot”: The Silk Letters and the Arab Question in Cairo and Delhi 120 9 “Revolutionaries, Renegades and Refugees”: Anti-British Allegiances in the Context of World War I 134 10 From Dublin to Turgai: Discourses on Small Nations and Violence in the Russian Muslim Press in 1916 148 11 “To be Avoided at all Hazards” – Rebel Irish and Syndicalists Coming into Office: The Easter Rising, Climatic Conditions and the 1916 Australian Referendum on Conscription 163 SECTION IV: European Responses and Parallels 174 12 British Labour and Irish Rebels: “Try and Understand” 176 13 The Execution of Cesare Battisti: Loyalty, Citizenship, and Empire in the Trentino in World War I 190 14 “The Same Thing Could Happen in Finland”: The Anti-Imperial Moment in Ireland and Finland, 1916–1917 205 15 Early Risers and Late Sleepers: The Easter Rising and the Poznanian Uprising of 1918–1919 Compared 225 Index 240 "1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was the revolutionary counterpart to the later diplomatic attempt to construct a new world order in the so-called Wilsonian moment. Chief among such events was the Easter Rising in Ireland, an occurrence which had worldwide significance as a challenge to the established order. This is the first collection of specialist studies that aims at interpreting the global significance of 1916 in the decline of empires"-- Provided by publisher Edited By Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy, And Gearóid Barry. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.