Worldmaking after Empire : : The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination / / Adom Getachew.

Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations-a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building-obscure just ho...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Worldmaking after Empire
  • Chapter 1. A Political Theory of Decolonization
  • Chapter 2. The Counterrevolutionary Moment: Preserving Racial Hierarchy in the League of Nations
  • Chapter 3. From Principle to Right: The Anticolonial Reinvention of Self-Determination
  • Chapter 4. Revisiting the Federalists in the Black Atlantic
  • Chapter 5. The Welfare World of the New International Economic Order
  • Epilogue. The Fall of Self-Determination
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A NOTE ON THE TYPE