Wilsonianism in Southern Europe and Latin America

The Political Impact of Woodrow Wilson After the First World War
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-96865-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History

Approaches to the impact of Wilsonianism have traditionally been developed from the fields of international relations, international law, and the study of global self-determination movements. This book offers a complementary and original perspective by examining the political influence of Wilsonian ideals in the broader crisis of liberalism following the First World War.

While taking into account Wilson’s role in inspiring self-determination movements, the book primarily analyzes the political construction and appropriation of Wilson’s image—as a reformist, pacifist, democratic, and liberal leader—by liberal and socialist circles in Europe and Latin America. At the same time, it explores the rejection of Wilsonianism expressed by right-wing political forces and intellectuals, both during the war and in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. Adopting a comparative and transnational approach, the study focuses on ‘peripheral’ contexts that have received limited scholarly attention—such as Spain, Portugal, and various countries in Latin America—while also incorporating two key cases, France and Italy, due to their close political and ideological connections with the former.

This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars in the fields of Global History and International Affairs, as well as all those interested in Latin American or Modern European History.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pala, Giaime

Fuentes Codera, Maximiliano

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Introduction

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and Giaime Pala

1. Between Wishful Thinking and Reality: Woodrow Wilson, Self-Determination and the Nationality Principle in Europe, 1917–20

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas

2. Autonomy Over Independence: Self-Determination in Catalonia, Flanders and South Tyrol in the Aftermath of the Great War

Emmanuel Dalle Mulle and Mona Bieling

3. The Sultan of the Mountain and the Yankees of Spain: Echoes of the Wilsonian Moment in the Maghreb and Catalonia

Pol Dalmau

4. The Wilsonian Moment and the PNV-Aberri: global networks and anticolonial solidarity

María Reyes Baztán

5. Wilsonianism in Spain: Illusion and Disappointment (1917–1923)

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera

6. For Wilson, against Wilson: evolving attitudes towards Wilsonianism in the Spanish right (1916-1936)

David Jiménez Torres

7. Spanish Wilsonianism (1919–1936): American Progressivism and Its Reception Among Catholic and Liberal Intellectuals

Santiago de Navascués

8. "Un grand voix": Wilson and French Socialism Between the Great War and its Aftermath

Jacopo Perazzoli

9. Wilson and Wilsonianism in Italy between the Great War and the birth of Fascism

Jacopo Perazzoli

10. The "Wilsonian Moment" across the Portuguese world, c. 1918-c. 1930

Pedro Aires Oliveira

11. Wilsonism and Panamericanism in Argentina. Receptions and controversies

Leandro Losada  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera is Associate Professor at the University of Girona, where he is also the director of the Walter Benjamin, Memory and Exile Chair. His latest books are Spain and Argentina in the First World War: Transnational Neutralities (Routledge, 2021), The Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919: A Political and Cultural Approach from a COVID World (Routledge, 2023), and Sánchez Mazas: El falangista que nació tres veces (2025).

Giaime Pala is Associate Professor at the University of Girona. His works focus primarily on the history of intellectuals and the history of Communism. His latest books are Cultura clandestine: Los intelectuales del PSUC bajo el franquismo (2016) and La fuerza y el consenso: Ensayo sobre Gramsci como historiador (2021).