Competing Visions of World Order Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s

by Conrad, Sebastian; Sachsenmaier, Dominic

• ISBN13: 9781403979889
• ISBN10: 140397988X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Transnational History raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors trace the historical trajectories of notions of world order, while proposing cutting-edge transnational and global approaches. The essayists grapple with broad and critical questions, including the role of global discourses, the politics of new global movements, the impact of global intellectual developments, and the emergence of competing visions of world order.

Author Biography

Sebastian Conrad is Assistant Professor of Modern History, Free University, Berlin. Dominic Sachsenmaier is Assistant Professor of Trans-Cultural and Chinese History, Duke University.

Table of Contents

Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s

Conceptions of World Order and Global Consciousness in the Imperialist Age

Global Civil Society and the Forces of Empire: The Salvation Army, British Imperialism and the "Pre-history" of NGOs (ca. 1880 – 1920)

The Common Grounds of Conflict: Racial Visions of World Order 1880-1940

World Orders in World Histories Before and After World War I

World War I as a Global Moment: Implications for Conceptions of World Order

Dawn of a New Era: The “Wilsonian Moment” in Colonial Contexts and the Transformation of World Order, 1917-1920

Alternative Visions of World Order in the Aftermath of World War I

Global Perspectives on Chinese Approaches

Movements Towards Alternative World Order

Global Mobility and Nationalism: Chinese Migration and the Re-Territorialization of Belonging, 1880-1910

A Global Anti-Western Moment? The Russo-Japanese War, Decolonization and Asian Modernity

Bringing the “Black Atlantic” into Global History: The Project of Pan-Africanism

Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s

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