The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism

by Erez Manela • 2007

This book tells the neglected story of non-Western peoples at the time of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing how Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric of self-determination helped ignite the upheavals that erupted in the spring of 1919 in four disparate non-Western societies--Egypt, India, China and Korea.