Ordained as a Nation
Pankaj Mishra: Exporting Democracy, 21 February 2008
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism
by Erez Manela.
Oxford, 331 pp., £17.99, July 2007,978 0 19 517615 5 Show More
by Erez Manela.
Oxford, 331 pp., £17.99, July 2007,
“... Early in The Wilsonian Moment, Erez Manela tells a story about Ho Chi Minh that I often heard in student Communist circles in India. Ho was an indigent worker in Paris when Woodrow Wilson arrived in the city in 1919 with a plan to make the world ‘safe for democracy’. Inspired by Wilson’s advocacy of national self-determination, Ho sought an audience with the US president, hoping to persuade him to use his new influence to restore Vietnamese rule in French Indo-China ... ”
