#  Publications 

 



**Books**

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[*The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/anticolonial-transnational/6F40DC791C8D8A67E6702D022C3E6D58) (co-editor). Cambridge University Press, 2023.



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[*The Development Century: A Global History*](https://www.amazon.com/Development-Century-Global-History-International/dp/1108453473/) (co-editor and contributor). Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Review: [Foreign Affairs](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2019-02-12/development-century-global-history)



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[*Empires at War, 1911-1923*](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0198702515/ref=rdr_ext_tmb) (co-editor). Oxford University Press, 2014.

Translations: Arabic, Chinese, [Greek](https://alexandria-publ.gr/shop/aftokratories-se-polemo/), [Persian](http://shahreketabonline.com/products/24/118317/%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7), [Portuguese](https://www.leyaonline.com/pt/livros/historia-e-politica/europeia-e-mundial/imperios-em-guerra-1911-1923/), [Spanish](http://www.amazon.com/IMPERIOS-EN-GUERRA-HISTORIA-PRET%C3%89RITA-ebook/dp/B018GFGVPI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1453383339&sr=8-4&keywords=erez%20manela), [Turkish](http://www.iletisim.com.tr/kitap/savastaki-imparatorluklar-1911-1923/9247#.WilpQUqnFAk)

Reviews: [H-Diplo](https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/61325/healy-gerwarth-empires-war-1911-1923), [H/Soz/Kult](https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-22047)



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[*The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective*](http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Global-1970s-Perspective/dp/0674061861/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1402541381) (co-editor and contributor). Harvard University Press, 2010.



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[*The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism*](http://www.amazon.com/The-Wilsonian-Moment-Self-Determination-International/dp/0195378539/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1402541333&sr=1-1). Oxford University Press, 2007.

Reviews: [London Review of Books](https://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n04/pankaj-mishra/ordained-as-a-nation), [Diplomatic History](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2008.00754.x/pdf), [H-Diplo roundtable](https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-X-7.pdf)

Translations: [Chinese](https://www.bookrep.com.tw/?md=gwindex&cl=book&at=bookcontent&id=12674), [Turkish](https://www.iletisim.com.tr/kitap/kendi-kaderini-tayin-hakki-ve-somurge-karsiti-milliyetciligin-kokenleri/9893)







**Articles & Chapters**

- "Race and Great Power Politics: The Japanese Racial Equality Proposal of 1919," in Stephan Haggard and David C. Kang, eds. [*East Asia and the Modern International Order*](https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/history/global-history/east-asia-and-modern-international-order-imperialism-cold-war?format=PB&isbn=9781009545174). Cambridge UP, 2025
- "[Visions of One World](/file_url/148)," in [*The Cambridge History of America and the World, vol. III*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-america-and-the-world/visions-of-one-world/85DA8914A6D904111E1E377D5A8C32AB). Cambridge UP, 2021.
- "The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919," in David Motadel, ed. [*Revolutionary World: Global Upheaval in the Modern Age*](http://services.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/global-history/revolutionary-world-global-upheaval-modern-age?format=PB&isbn=9781316648179). Cambridge UP, 2021.
    - Rev version published in Peter Jackson et al, eds. [*Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/peacemaking-and-international-order-after-the-first-world-war/392D29516C6403C046246920910FE415). Cambridge UP, 2023.
- ["Foreword: Plotting the Anti-Colonial Transnational,"](/file_url/147) in Michele Louro et al., eds., [*The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives*](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/L/bo69302775.html). Leiden UP, 2020.
- ["International Society as a Historical Subject,"](https://academic.oup.com/dh/article/44/2/184/5739337?guestAccessKey=c1b9c9c4-c81e-43b1-b763-cd1c408095b0) *Diplomatic History* 44:2 (April 2020).
    - H-Diplo [Review Forum](https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/6404871/h-diplo-article-review-forum-975-manela-%E2%80%9Cinternational-society) on the above essay, published Sept. 11, 2020.
- ["Asia in the Global 1919: Reimagining Territory, Identity, and Solidarity,"](/file_url/144) *Journal of Asian Studies* 78:2 (May 2019).
- "Wilson and Lenin," *Diplomatic History* 42:4 (Sept. 2018).
- “Smallpox and the Globalization of Development,” in Stephen Macekura and Erez Manela, eds., [*The Development Century: A Global History*](https://www.amazon.com/Development-Century-Global-History-International/dp/1108453473/). Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- “The Politics of Smallpox Eradication,” in John R. McNeill and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds., [*The Cambridge World History*, *Vol. VII: 1750-Present*.](http://www.amazon.com/The-Cambridge-World-History-Part/dp/1107000203/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0) Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- “Global Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Wilson,” in Ian Tyrrell and Jay Sexton, eds., [*Empire's Twin: U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism*](http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Twin-Anti-imperialism-Founding-Terrorism/dp/0801479193/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=)*.* Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
- “The Fourth Policeman: Franklin Roosevelt’s Vision for China’s Global Role,” in Wu Sihua et al., eds., [*開羅宣言的影響與意義 / The Significance and Impact of the Cairo Declaration*](http://nccupress.nccu.edu.tw/book/bookdetail.php?id=63&type=1). Taipei: Chengchi University Press, 2014.
- [“The Great War as a Global War: Imperial Conflict and the Reconfiguration of World Order, 1911-1923,”](/file_url/121) *Diplomatic History* 38, No. 4 (Sept. 2014), 786-800 (co-authored with Robert Gerwarth).
    - Revised version in Thomas W. Zeiler et al., eds., [*Beyond 1917: The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War*](https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-1917-United-States-Legacies/dp/0190604018/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=). Oxford University Press, 2017.
    - Spanish translation in *Historia Social*, No. 92 (2018).
- "Globalizing the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and the Pursuit of Smallpox Eradication," in Francis Gavin and Mark Lawrence, eds., [*Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s*](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199790701). Oxford University Press, 2014.
- " [The United States in the World](/file_url/119)," in Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr, eds., [ *American History Now*](http://www.amazon.com/American-History-Now-Critical-Perspectives/dp/1439902445/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1402541494&sr=1-1). Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2011.
- "Woodrow Who?" [*Diplomatic History*](/file_url/108) 35:1 (2011).
- "[A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History,"](/file_url/100) *Diplomatic History* 34:2 (April 2010), 299-323.
    - [Chinese translation](https://manela.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum8061/files/2026-04/Xing%20translation%20A%20Pox%20on%20Your%20Narrative.pdf) in 近现代国际关系史研究 \[Journal of Modern International History Studies\]，2025年，第25辑，pp.75-104.
- "Smallpox Eradication and the Rise of Global Governance," in Ferguson et al., eds. [*The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective*](http://www.amazon.com/The-Shock-Global-1970s-Perspective/dp/0674061861/ref=tmm_pap_title_0). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.
- "'[Peoples of Many Races’: The World beyond Europe in the Wilsonian Imagination](/file_url/102)," in John Milton Cooper and Thomas J. Knock, eds., [*Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson: The Dilemma of Race and Democracy*](http://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Lincoln-Wilson-American-Democracy/dp/0813930049/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402541538&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=efferson,%20Lincoln,%20and%20Wilson:%20The%20Dilemma%20of%20Race%20and%20Democracy). University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- "[The 'Wilsonian Moment' in East Asia:The March First Movement in Global Perspective](/file_url/137)," *Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies* 9:1 (2009).
- "Dawn of a New Era: The ‘Wilsonian Moment’ in Colonial Contexts and the Transformation of World Order, 1917-1920," in Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds., [*Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s*](http://www.amazon.com/Competing-Visions-World-Order-Transnational/dp/140397988X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409849816&sr=8-1&keywords=Competing%20visions%20of%20world%20order.%20Global%20moments%20and%20movements,%201880s-1930s%20CONRAD,%20Sebastian;%20SACHSENMAIER,%20Dominic). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- "[Imagining Woodrow Wilson in Asia: Dreams of East-West Harmony and the Revolt Against Empire in 1919](/file_url/120)," *American Historical Review*, 111:5 (December 2006).
- "[A Man Ahead of His Time? Wilsonian Globalism and the Doctrine of Preemption](/file_url/105)," *International Journal* 60:4 (2005).
- "The Wilsonian Moment in India and the Crisis of Empire in 1919," in Wm. Roger Louis, ed., [*Yet More Adventures with Britannia*](http://www.amazon.com/Yet-More-Adventures-Britannia-Personalities/dp/1845110927). London: I.B. Tauris, 2005.
- "[Goodwill and Bad: Rethinking US-Egyptian Relations in the Interwar Years](/file_url/107)," *Middle Eastern Studies* 38:1 (2002).
- "The Wilsonian Moment and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism: The Case of Egypt," *Diplomacy & Statecraft* 12:4 (2001).

**Reviews and Review Essays**

- "[The Geneva Crucible](https://academic.oup.com/dh/article/48/2/275/7324733?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=dh&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=6b15fd97-4a4b-4fd1-9e8b-16c779c4bc0e)," *Diplomatic History*, Volume 48, Issue 2 (April 2024)
- "[From the Jaws of Retreat: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Persistence of American Ambition](/file_url/149)," *Foreign Affairs* 101:1 (Jan/Feb 2022)
- [Review](/file_url/146) of *1916 in Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Moment,* Dal Lago et al, eds.; *Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions: 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective,* Rinke & Wildt, eds.; and *1917: War, Peace, and Revolution,* by David Stevenson. *Journal of Modern History* 92:2 (June 2020).
- Introduction to [Roundtable Review](/file_url/145) on *How to Hide an Empire,* by Daniel Immerwahr. H-Diplo, November 2019.
- "[Where in the World Is the Periphery?](/file_url/141)" Review of *Foreign Policy at the Periphery: The Shifting Margins of US International Relations since World War II*, Bevan Sewell and Maria Ryan, eds. *Diplomatic History* 42:4 (Sept. 2018).
- [Review](/file_url/142) of *Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History*. Andrew Preston and Doug Rossinow, eds. *Journal of Interdisciplinary History* 49:1 (summer 2018).
- Review of *The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire*, by Susan Pedersen. Part of [roundtable discussion](/file_url/138) in *Il mestiere di storico*, 8:1 (2017).
- [Review](/file_url/140) of *Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism*, Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman, eds. *Journal of Interdisciplinary History* 47:2 (2016).
- Introduction to [Roundtable Review](https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/roundtable-xviii-2.pdf) of *The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire*, by Susan Pedersen. H-Diplo, September 2016.
- Article [Review ](https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/39720/article-review-480-bernath-lecture-united-states-and-curious)of “The United States and the Curious History of Self-Determination,” by Brad Simpson, *Diplomatic History* 36:4. H-Diplo, September 2014.
- [Review](/file_url/130) of *The Global Lincoln*, Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton, eds. *Journal of American Studies* 47:4 (2013).
- [Review](/file_url/125) of *A World Connecting, 1870-1945*, by Emily S. Rosenberg, Ed. *H-Diplo,* July 2013.
- [Review](/file_url/115) of *The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present*, by Michael E. Latham. *Journal of Cold War Studies* 15:1 (January 2013).
- [Review](/file_url/124) of *The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Hunger in Asia*, by Nick Cullather. *Passport*, Jan. 2012.
- [Review](/file_url/123) of *Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War*, by Guoqi Xu. *American Historical Review* (October 2011).
- [Review ](/file_url/109)of *Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace*, by Kristin L. Ahlberg. *Journal of Cold War Studies* 12:3 (Summer 2010).
- "[Reconceiving International History](/file_url/117)," *Reviews in American History* 37:1 (2009).
- [Review ](http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/11/29/a_full_blooded_portrait_of_the_28th_president/)of *Woodrow Wilson*, by John Milton Cooper, Jr. *Boston Globe*, 29 Nov. 2009.
- [Review](/file_url/122) on *The Crisis in American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century,* by G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Tony Smith, eds. H-Diplo, July 2009.
- "[Race, Civilization, and International Society](/file_url/111)," review of *The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought*, by Cemil Aydin. H-Net Reviews, January 2009.
- "Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House," review of *Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House*, by Godfrey Hodgson. *Diplomatic History* 31:2 (April 2007).
- Review of *Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies*, by Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit. *International Journal* 60:1 (Winter 2004-2005).