Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
by
Erez Manela
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had called for "a free, open-minded,...