Erez Manela is a professor of history at Harvard, focusing on modern international history and the history of the United States in the world. His work examines the global interconnectedness and historical processes that have shaped the contemporary world order. Through his writings, he analyzes the complex relationships between nations and cultures, revealing deeper connections within international affairs. His approach offers readers a profound perspective on the development of the modern world.
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.