Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (Global and International History)

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-- Introduction: Explaining Anti-imperialism And Third World Nationalism -- 1. Surveying The Crossroads Of The World : Paris At The Intersection Of Global Migrations -- 2. Building Communities : Everyday Ethnicity And Popular Culture -- 3. Lovers, Husbands, Fathers, Workers, And Soldiers : Private Life And Work -- 4. Learning And Imparting Lessons In Anti-imperialism : Students In The Latin Quarter -- 5. The Clearinghouse Of World Politics : International Relations And Colonialism -- 6. Communist Intermediaries : The French Left, The Comintern, And Anti-imperialists -- 7. A Revolutionary Lingua Franca : Anti-imperialism, Civic Rights, And The Republican Ethos -- 8. Vernacularizing Nationalism : An Outcome Foretold? -- Biographical Appendix. Michael Goebel (freie Universität Berlin). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List Of Figures Acknowledgments List Of Abbreviations Introduction Explaining Anti-Imperialism And Third World Nationalism 1 Surveying The Crossroads Of The World: Paris At The Intersection Of Global Migrations Flows (And Ebbs) Mobility And Networks Differential Legislations, Grouping, And Policing 2 Building Communities: Everyday Ethnicity And Popular Culture Race, Ethnicity, And Naturalization Food And Restaurants Music And Language 3 Lovers, Husbands, Fathers, Workers And Soldiers: Private Life And Work Intimate Relations, Children, And Marriage Work And Pay The Politics Of Mutual Aid 4 Learning And Imparting Lessons In Anti-Imperialism: Students In The Latin Quarter Students As Migrants From May Fourth To May Thirtieth: The Chinese Work-Study Movement Harbingers Of Latinité: Latin American Students And Their Organizations Challenging The Metropole From Inside: Vietnamese And North African Students 5 The Clearinghouse Of World Politics: International Relations And Colonialism Wilsonianism And The Paris Peace Conference The Rif War, Syria, And China The Italian Invasion Of Ethiopia 6 Communist Intermediaries: The French Left, The Comintern, And Anti-Imperialists A Strained Alliance The Intercolonial Union The League Against Imperialism 7 A Revolutionary Lingua Franca: Anti-Imperialism, Civic Rights, And The Republican Ethos Weaving French Republicanism Into Global Anti-Imperialism The Idiom Of Disenchantment Everyday Practices Of Republicanism 8 Vernacularizing Nationalism: An Outcome Foretold? What’S In A Word? Contemporary Uses Of The Term “Nationalism” The Ethno-Cultural Underpinnings Of Anti-Imperialism Cosmopolitanism And Pan-Nationalisms Right-Wing Nationalism, Territorializations, And Sovereignty Conclusion Biographical Appendix Bibliography Index This book examines the social life of non-Europeans in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and describes the political outgrowths of their migration to France. It argues that this migration was crucial for decolonization and the rise of a Third World consciousness after World War II.