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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zahra, Tara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1919-1932.

World politics.

World politics--1933-1945.

Economic history--1918-1945.

Economic history.

Anti-globalization movement--History--20th century.

Anti-globalization movement.

Nationalism--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Isolationism--History--20th century.

Isolationism.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxx, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"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, one that would surge ahead with the outbreak of war and its aftermath. In Against the World, a sweeping and ambitious work of history, acclaimed scholar Tara Zahra examines how nationalism, rather than internationalism, came to ensnare world politics in the early twentieth century. The air went out of the globalist balloon with the First World War as quotas were put on immigration and tariffs on trade, not only in the United States but across Europe, where war and disease led to mass societal upheaval. The "Spanish flu" heightened anxieties about porous national boundaries. The global impact of the 1929 economic crash and the Great Depression amplified a quest for food security in Europe and economic autonomy worldwide. Demands for relief from the instability and inequality linked to globalization forged democracies and dictatorships alike, from Gandhi's India to America's New Deal and Hitler's Third Reich. Immigration restrictions, racially constituted notions of citizenship, anti-Semitism, and violent outbursts of hatred of the "other" became the norm--coming to genocidal fruition in the Second World War. Millions across the political spectrum sought refuge from the imagined and real threats of the global economy in ways strikingly reminiscent of our contemporary political moment: new movements emerged focused on homegrown and local foods, domestically produced clothing and other goods, and back-to-the-land communities. Rich with astonishing detail gleaned from Zahra's unparalleled archival research in five languages, Against the World is a poignant and thorough exhumation of the popular sources of resistance to globalization. With anti-globalism a major tenet of today's extremist agendas, Zahra's arrestingly clearsighted and wide-angled account is essential reading to grapple with our divided present"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780393651966

0393651967

OCLC:

1320809289

Publisher Number:

40031693313