Description
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.
A City Against Empire is the history of the anti-imperialist movement in 1920s Mexico City. It combines intellectual, social, and urban history to shed light on the city’s role as an important global hub for anti-imperialism, exile activism, political art, and solidarity campaigns. After the Russian and the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City became a space and a symbol of global anti-imperialism. Radical politicians, artists, intellectuals, scientists, migrants, and revolutionary tourists took advantage of the urban environment to develop their visions of an anti-imperialism for the twentieth-century. These actors imagined national self-determination, international solidarity, and an emancipation from what they called “the West.” Global, local, and urban factors interacted to transform Mexico City into the most important hub for radicalism in the Americas. By weaving together the intellectual history of Mexico, the urban and social histories of Mexico City, and the global history of anti-imperialist movements in the 1920s, this books analyses the perfect storm of anti-imperialism in Mexico City.
Trade Review"Lindner’s
A City Against Empire is a carefully researched, convincingly argued and well-written overview of a remarkable place, moment and theme. He makes his case for Mexico City as a unique site of national, regional and global anti-imperialism in the 1920s, but that story is made much more significant by its insertion into a variety of transnational histories that have often been given short shrift in local and national histories of Mexico City."
John Lear, University of Puget Sound
Table of ContentsIntroduction
One: Anti-Imperialist Cosmopolitanism. Art and Radical Politics
Two: Our Anti-Imperialist America. Transnational Exile Networks
Three: Standing with Sacco and Sandino. Transnational Solidarity Campaigns
Four: Anti-Imperialist Imaginaries. Mexican Origins of Tricontinentalism
Five: Globalizing Urban Networks. The Brussels Congress of 1927
Conclusion
Acronyms
Bibliography
