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Worldmaking after empire the rise and fall of self-determination

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Getachew, Adom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford Princeton University Press 2019, ©2019
Subjects:
Self-determination, National > united States
Self-determination, National > great Britain
Self-determination, National > africa
Self-determination, National > caribbean Area
Self-determination, National > switzerland
Postcolonialism
Decolonization
National Liberation Movements > history
African Americans > civil Rights > history
Africans > civil Rights > history
Blacks > civil Rights > history
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • 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

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