Name: HIASMIM DA SILVA DO ESPÍRITO SANTO
Publication date: 15/06/2026
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CAROLINA FERREIRA DE FIGUEIREDO | Coorientador |
| JOSEMAR MACHADO DE OLIVEIRA | Presidente |
| JULIO CESAR BENTIVOGLIO | Examinador Interno |
| WALTER GÜNTHER RODRIGUES LIPPOLD | Examinador Externo |
Summary: With European powers at its center, World War I is often portrayed as an event confined to Europe. This dissertation, however, examines what the war mobilized—in terms of human and natural resources—outside the European continent, as well as the political and intellectual responses it provoked among colonized peoples. To this end, it draws on two documents produced in the immediate postwar period as its central sources: the Resolution of the First Pan-African Congress (1919) and the Manifesto of the Peoples of the East (1920). These sources are analyzed as anti-colonial reactions to the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), a diplomatic event that, led by the victorious powers, sought to reorganize territories and establish new parameters for the international system. Using a comparative method, the research examines how Pan-Africanists and representatives of the peoples of the East articulated, in their respective congresses, three common thematic axes: the denunciation of colonial dehumanization, the demand for self-determination, and the critique of imperialism. By comparing these two congress experiences, the dissertation aims to contribute to a historiography of World War I that incorporates the perspectives and agency of colonized subjects, shifting the focus from the European center to the margins of the empire.
