1916 In Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Moment

248 Pages·2018·2.885 MB·English

by  Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy, Gearóid Barry

1916 in Global Context
The year 1916 has recently been identified as “a tipping point for the in-
tensification 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 world-
wide significance as a challenge to the established order. This is the first col-
lection of specialist studies that aims at interpreting the global significance
of the year 1916 in the decline of empires.
Enrico Dal Lago is Professor of American History at NUI Galway. He is
the author of several books, the latest of which are The Age of Lincoln and
Cavour: Comparative Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American and
Italian Nation-Building (2015), and Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The
Confederate South and Southern Italy (2018).
Róisín Healy is Lecturer in Modern European History at NUI Galway.
Her publications include The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern
Past (2014) and Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772–1922:
Anti-Colonialism within Europe (2017).
Gearóid Barry is Lecturer in Modern European History at NUI Galway.
His books include The Disarmament of Hatred: Marc Sangnier, French
Catholicism and the Legacy of the First World War, 1914–45 (2012) and
Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (2016).
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48 Governing the Rural in Interwar Europe
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49 Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion
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Samantha Lomb
50 Britain and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974
Conflict, Colonialism and the Politics of Remembrance
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John Burke
51 Nationalism of the Rich
Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders,
Northern Italy and Scotland
Emmanuel Dalle Mulle
52 Protecting Democracy from Dissent: Population Engineering
in Western Europe 1918–1926
Shannon Monaghan
53 Orphans and Abandoned Children in European History
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An Anti-Imperial Moment
Edited by Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy, and Gearóid Barry
1916 in Global Context
An Anti-Imperial Moment
Edited by Enrico Dal Lago,
Róisín Healy, and Gearóid Barry
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xv
SECTION I
Transnational and Comparative Approaches to 1916 1
1 Globalising the Easter Rising: 1916 and the
Challenge to Empires 3
ENRICO DAL LAGO, RóISíN HEALY, AND GEARóID BARRY
2 The Easter Rising and the Changing Character of
Irregular Warfare 18
TIMOTHY D. HOYT
SECTION II
The Atlantic World 29
3 Echoes of the Rising in Quebec’s Conscription Crisis: The
French Canadian Press and the Irish Revolution between
1916 and 1918 31
CHARLES-PHILIPPE COURTOIS
4 The Great American Protest: African Americans and the
Great Migration 49
CECELIA HARTSELL
5 Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian Nationalism, and the Irish
Revolution: The View from New York, 1914–1920 62
DAvID BRUNDAGE
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6 Johannesburg’s Green Flag: The Contemporaneity of the
Easter Rising and the 1922 Rand Rebellion 76
JONATHAN HYSLOP
SECTION III
North Africa, Asia and the Pacific 91
7 1916 in the Middle East and the Global War for Empire 93
MICHAEL PROvENCE
8 “A Tempest in a British Tea Pot”: The Silk Letters and the
Arab Question in Cairo and Delhi 103
ERIN O’HALLORAN
9 “Revolutionaries, Renegades and Refugees”: Anti-British
Allegiances in the Context of World War I 117
STEPHEN MCQUILLAN
10 From Dublin to Turgai: Discourses on Small Nations and
Violence in the Russian Muslim Press in 1916 131
DANIELLE ROSS
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 146
DANIEL MARC SEGESSER
SECTION IV
European Responses and Parallels 157
12 British Labour and Irish Rebels: “Try and Understand” 159
GEOFFREY BELL
13 The Execution of Cesare Battisti: Loyalty, Citizenship, and
Empire in the Trentino in World War I 173
vANDA WILCOX
Contents vii
14 “The Same Thing Could Happen in Finland”:
The Anti-Imperial Moment in Ireland and Finland,
1916–1917 188
ANDREW G. NEWBY
15 Early Risers and Late Sleepers: The Easter Rising and the
Poznanian Uprising of 1918–1919 Compared 208
RóISíN HEALY
Index 223
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List of Figures
1 Italian postcard commemorating the invasion of 1911,
reading “Dawn of Civilisation.” Source: By kind permission
of Dr. Wolf-Dieter Lemke. 94
2 French postcard from the period 1912–1913. Balkan War,
reading ‘The Balkan Oven, The Allies: So we are going to
share the croissant (a metaphor for the Muslim crescent,
identified here as Turkey)’. Source: By kind permission of
Dr. Wolf-Dieter Lemke. 95