ABSTRACT
Histories of transnational social and political movements have long been obscured by an overwhelming focus on the nation as the primary unit of analysis in the case of studies of decolonializing Africa and Asia. Harald Fischer-Tin has shown that the wave of globalization prior to the outbreak of the First World War applied to transnational mobilizations in Asia as well, not necessarily in the wake of imperial traffic or powered by the idealism of European internationalists. The years following the First World War did change the nature of these engagements, both in terms of the volume of anti-imperialist mobilizations and in the institutional spaces open to them. The social and political organizations that emerged from this period of increased anti-imperialist mobilization shared an internationalist idiom, even if their visions of a post-imperial world order differed. A polycentric approach to anti-imperialist mobilizations assist in exploring continuities of people, organizations and ideas past the landmark events that structure national histories.
