Wilsonianism in Southern Europe and Latin America

The Political Impact of Woodrow Wilson After the First World War

Maximiliano Fuentes Codera, Giaime Pala

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040667279
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: 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 analyses 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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Between Wishful Thinking and Reality: Woodrow Wilson, Self-Determination and the Nationality Principle in Europe, 1917–20
• 2 Autonomy Over Independence: Self-Determination in Catalonia, Flanders and South Tyrol in the Aftermath of the Great War
• 3 The Sultan of the Mountain and the Yankees of Spain: Echoes of the Wilsonian Moment in the Maghreb and Catalonia
• 4 The Wilsonian Moment and the PNV-Aberri: Global Networks and Anticolonial Solidarity
• 5 Wilsonianism in Spain: Illusion and Disappointment (1917–1923)
• 6 For Wilson, Against Wilson: Evolving Attitudes Towards Wilsonianism in the Spanish Right (1916–1936)
• 7 Spanish Wilsonianism (1919–1936): American Progressivism and Its Reception Among Catholic and Liberal Intellectuals
• 8 “Un Grand Voix”: Wilson and French Socialism Between the Great War and Its Aftermath
• 9 Wilson and Wilsonianism in Italy Between the Great War and the Birth of Fascism
• 10 The “Wilsonian Moment” Across the Portuguese world, c. 1918–c. 1930
• 11 Wilsonianism and Pan-Americanism in Argentina: Receptions and Controversies
• Index