League Against League

02-02-2027

In the eight year of the Versailles order, the League Against Imperialism was founded. This organisation was obviously a reaction to the 🇬🇧-led League of Nations.(1) In 1918, United States President Woodrow Wilson provided the idea for the "League of Versailles", as it would not be positively termed by the League seat-hosting Swiss: Bund von Versailles. At the Paris conference, British forces moulded Wilson's Armistice-based concept for their national and imperial interests. This brought about publicly acclaimed antitheses such as the Union Intercoloniale (1921) and the LAI.

📘  Recommendation: The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives, Leiden University Press 2020.


Partition Machine. The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne 100 Years Later. British Academy Conference, University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, 11.VIII.2023. Question to Dr Faiz Ahmed (right), lecture: Afghanistan, India, and Turkey after Lausanne: Opportunities and Challenges for Anticolonial Solidarity. 11.VIII.2023

Mr Ahmed picked three questions leaving out mine.


19 April 2022. See Ms Bhambra's reply at 48 min. 49 sec.
19 April 2022. See Ms Bhambra's reply at 48 min. 49 sec.

Footnotes

Ulrike von Hirschhausen, review of Wagner, Florian:Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982Cambridge 2022, ISBN 9781316512838, In: H-Soz-Kult, 6 March 2024.


Literature

Michael Goebel: Anti-imperial Metropolis. Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism, Cambridge 2015.

Florian Wagner: Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982Cambridge 2022.