1916 In Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Moment

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The year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was the revolutionary counterpart to the later diplomatic attempt to construct a new world order in the so-called Wilsonian moment. Chief among such events was the Easter Rising in Ireland, an occurrence that took on worldwide significance as a challenge to the established order. This is the first collection of specialist studies that aims at interpreting the global significance of the year 1916 in the decline of empires. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 16 SECTION I: Transnational and Comparative Approaches to 1916......Page 18 1 Globalising the Easter Rising: 1916 and the Challenge to Empires......Page 20 2 The Easter Rising and the Changing Character of Irregular Warfare......Page 35 SECTION II: The Atlantic World......Page 46 3 Echoes of the Rising in Quebec’s Conscription Crisis: The French Canadian Press and the Irish Revolution between 1916 and 1918......Page 48 4 The Great American Protest: African Americans and the Great Migration......Page 66 5 Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian Nationalism, and the Irish Revolution: The View from New York, 1914–1920......Page 79 6 Johannesburg’s Green Flag: The Contemporaneity of the Easter Rising and the 1922 Rand Rebellion......Page 93 SECTION III: North Africa, Asia and the Pacific......Page 108 7 1916 in the Middle East and the Global War for Empire......Page 110 8 “A Tempest in a British Tea Pot”: The Silk Letters and the Arab Question in Cairo and Delhi......Page 120 9 “Revolutionaries, Renegades and Refugees”: Anti-British Allegiances in the Context of World War I......Page 134 10 From Dublin to Turgai: Discourses on Small Nations and Violence in the Russian Muslim Press in 1916......Page 148 11 “To be Avoided at all Hazards” – Rebel Irish and Syndicalists Coming into Office: The Easter Rising, Climatic Conditions and the 1916 Australian Referendum on Conscription......Page 163 SECTION IV: European Responses and Parallels......Page 174 12 British Labour and Irish Rebels: “Try and Understand”......Page 176 13 The Execution of Cesare Battisti: Loyalty, Citizenship, and Empire in the Trentino in World War I......Page 190 14 “The Same Thing Could Happen in Finland”: The Anti-Imperial Moment in Ireland and Finland, 1916–1917......Page 205 15 Early Risers and Late Sleepers: The Easter Rising and the Poznanian Uprising of 1918–1919 Compared......Page 225 Index......Page 240