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

Erez Manela

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.

HistoryWorld History · medium confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: World History -> World HistoryAfrica & the African DiasporaConstitutional HistoryIndigenous History

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Cundill History PrizeMajor2008LonglistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Woodrow Wilson78%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Paris Peace Conference72%
    • Egypt55%
    • India35%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Woodrow Wilson’s rhetoric of self-determination helped ignite upheavals that erupted in spring 1919 in non-Western societies, shaping the international origins of anticolonial nationalism.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    58 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 70%.