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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
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88/100Author:
Tara Zahra
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
January 24, 2023
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. Tara Zahra examines how nationalism, rather than internationalism, came to ensnare world politics in the early twentieth century.
What The Reviewers Say
... lively and ambitious.
Ms. Zahra’s narrative shows us how closely—even eerily—our present-day world resembles the state of the globe roughly a century ago.
Tacit within this illuminating account is a cautionary rebuke of those historians who, prematurely and perhaps aspirationally, announced a world that had moved beyond the nation-state..
... a history that holds relevance for today.
