'In this fascinating and well-researched study of non-Western expatriates in Paris between the wars, Michael Goebel combines meticulous social history with several broad claims about the significance of this experience … Anti-Imperial Metropolis is an excellent book that builds upon the work of scholars like Jennifer Boittin and Marilyn Levine to create a masterful portrait of a unique time and place … Michael Goebel crafts an engaging portrait of a diverse group of workers and intellectuals from many different shores who developed in Paris visions of their own nations and futures that would reshape the world in the mid-twentieth century. Anyone interested in the transnational history of the modern world will find this an intriguing and at times provocative study.' Tyler Stovall , H-Soz-u-Kult
Introduction; 1. Surveying the crossroads of the world: Paris at the intersection of global migrations; 2. Building communities: everyday ethnicity and popular culture; 3. Lovers, husbands, fathers, workers, and soldiers: private life and work; 4. Learning and imparting lessons in anti-imperialism: students in the Latin Quarter; 5. The clearinghouse of world politics: international relations and colonialism; 6. Communist intermediaries: the French Left, the Comintern, and anti-imperialists; 7. A revolutionary lingua franca: anti-imperialism, civic rights, and the republican ethos; 8. Vernacularizing nationalism: an outcome foretold?; Conclusion.