UID:
almafu_9961652669702883
Format:
1 online resource (412 p.) :
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2 halftones
ISBN:
9789400603707
Series Statement:
Global Connections: Routes and Roots ; 2
Content:
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives explores the dramatic and engaging story of a global institution that brought together activists across geographical and political borders for the goal of eradicating colonial rule worldwide. The League against Imperialism (LAI) attracted anticolonial activists like India’s Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta, as well as prominent figures such as Albert Einstein, Ernst Toller, Romain Rolland, Upton Sinclair, Mohandas Gandhi, and Madame Sun Yat-Sen. This volume is the first to capture the global history of the LAI by bringing together contributions by scholars researching the movement from various regions, languages, and archives. Told primarily from the perspectives of those on the peripheries of empires, the volume argues that interwar anti-imperialism was central to the story of transnational activism during the interwar years and remained an inspiration for many who took on leadership roles during decolonization across the global south.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Foreword: Plotting the Anti-Colonial Transnational --
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1. The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives --
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2. Forging a Proto-Third World? Latin America and the League Against Imperialism --
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3. An Independent Path: Algerian Nationalists and the League Against Imperialism --
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4. “Long Live the Revolutionary Alliance Against Imperialism”: Interwar Anti-Imperialism and the Arab Levant --
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5. China, Anti-imperialist Leagues, and the Comintern: Visions, Networks and Cadres --
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6. “We will fight with our lives for the equal rights of all peoples”: Willi Münzenberg, the League Against Imperialism, and the Comintern --
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7. British Passport Restrictions, the League Against Imperialism, and the Problem of Liberal Democracy --
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8. No More Slaves! Lamine Senghor, Black Internationalism and the League Against Imperialism --
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9. Unfreedom and Its Opposite: Towards an Intellectual History of the League Against Imperialism --
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10. An Anti-Imperialist “Echo” in India --
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11. Two Leagues, One Front? The India League and the League Against Imperialism in the British Left, 1927–1937 --
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12. Herald of a Failed Revolt: Mohammad Hatta in Brussels, 1927 --
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13. The Leninist Moment in South Africa --
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14. Towards Afro-Asia? Continuities and Change in Indian Anti-Imperialist Regionalism, 1927–1957 --
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15. Institutionalizing Postcolonial Internationalism: The Apparatus of the Third World Project --
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Afterword: the Zigzag of the Global in the Histories of the League Against Imperialism --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789400603707
