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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Getachew, Adom (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.