Against the World Audiobook Libro.fm

Before the First World War enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height International travel migration trade and progressive projects on matters ranging from womens rights to world peace reached a crescendo Yet in the same breath an undercurrent of reaction was growing one that would surge ahead with the outbreak of war and its aftermath

In this sweeping work of history Tara Zahra examines how nationalism rather than internationalism came to ensnare world politics in the early twentieth century The air went out of the globalist balloon with the First World War as quotas were put on immigration and tariffs on trade not only in the United States but across Europe The impact of the 1929 economic crash and the Great Depression amplified a quest for food security in Europe and economic autonomy worldwide Immigration restrictions antiSemitism and violent outbursts of hatred of the other became the normcoming to genocidal fruition in the Second World War

Millions sought refuge from the imagined and real threats of the global economy new movements emerged focused on homegrown and local foods domestically produced clothing and backtotheland communities Rich with astonishing detail Against the World is a poignant and thorough exhumation of the popular sources of resistance to globalization