ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|28 pages
Transnational and Comparative Approaches to 1916
section II|62 pages
The Atlantic World
chapter 3|20 pages
Echoes of the Rising in Quebec’s Conscription Crisis
chapter 5|14 pages
Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian Nationalism, and the Irish Revolution
chapter 6|15 pages
Johannesburg’s Green Flag
section III|66 pages
North Africa, Asia and the Pacific
chapter 8|14 pages
“A Tempest in a British Tea Pot”
chapter 9|14 pages
“Revolutionaries, Renegades and Refugees”
chapter 10|15 pages
From Dublin to Turgai
chapter 11|11 pages
“To be Avoided at all Hazards” – Rebel Irish and Syndicalists Coming into Office”
section IV|65 pages
European Responses and Parallels