Against the world : anti-globalism and mass politics between the world wars /

"Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an undercurrent of reaction was growing, on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zahra, Tara (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	World politics > 1919-1932. World politics > 1933-1945. Economic history > 1918-1945. Anti-globalization movement > History > 20th century. Nationalism > History > 20th century. Isolationism > History > 20th century. Anti-globalization movement. Economic history. Isolationism. Nationalism. World politics. 1900-1999 History.

Table of Contents:

Victory lies just ahead : Budapest, 1913
A way out : Derazhynia and New York, 1913
We are bringing peace : Hoboken, 1915
The hunger offensive : Vienna and Berlin, 1917
Disease binds the human race : New York, 1918
Reduced and impoverished : Paris, 1919
The victors have kept none of their promises : Fiume, 1919
Tinder for the Bolshevist spark : Budapest and Munich, 1919
No chestnut without a visa : Salzburg, 1922
The defense of Americanism : Ellis Island, 1924
Colonies in the homeland : Vienna, 1926
One foot on the land : Iron Mountain, 1931
Freedom through the spinning wheel : Lancashire, 1931
The air is our ocean : Zlín, 1931
Local foods : Littoria, 1932
Economic appeasement : London and Geneva, 1933
Space to breathe / Goslar, 1936
Conclusion : a new era of world cooperation : New York, 1939.