Handbook of National Revolutions. National Revolutions in the World: Theories, Practices, Internati

Call for papers/Bando/Call for essays Pubblicazione Edited book Scadenza: 31 Dicembre 2026 Referente: Orazio Maria Gnerre, Ruikai XueEmail : nationalrevolutionsintheworld@gmail.com Link: / Beginning in the nineteenth century, the world witnessed the emergence of national movements that advocated the construction of states founded upon the historical and cultural identity of peoples, as well as upon their independence and strategic autonomy. This wave, which manifested itself most prominently in the European revolutions of 1848, the so-called “Springtime of the Peoples,” produced a long-term historical impact — according to the principle of the longue durée — that influenced world political history in the decades that followed. This phenomenon was of enormous importance in the Western political sphere, having its precursors in the American Revolution and in the political epic of South American Bolivarianism, and gaining momentum from 1848 onward with the emergence of a whole series of European national movements. With the First World War, and with the promotion by Woodrow Wilson and the United States of the principle of “self-determination of peoples,” the same idea experienced a revival which, through Turkish Kemalism and the formation of the Chinese nationalist movement, extended into the non-Western world. Non-Western forms of this type of movement, in turn, had important precursors in anti-colonial movements, which, like European national movements, sought to secure independence and autonomy for broad sectors of the world subjected to foreign domination of an economic and extractive nature. During the twentieth century, the idea of national independence assumed various ideological and political forms, eventually giving rise to different theories of national autonomy and sovereignty, such as Mao Zedong’s “Three Worlds Theory.” At the same time, the rise of communist revolutions and of the world socialist camp revitalized this political idea, generating new formulations of theories of national revolution. Segnalato da: ORAZIO MARIA GNERRE