Introduction: Explaining anti-imperialism and Third World nationalism
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?
Biographical appendix.