Worldmaking after empire : the rise and fall of self-determination /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Getachew, Adom (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Self-determination, National.
Droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes.
LAW > International.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Self-determination, National
Africa.
American imperialism.
Eric Williams.
Ethiopia.
George Padmore.
Jan Smuts.
Kwame Nkrumah.
League of Nations.
Liberia.
NIEO.
New International Economic Order.
Nnamdi Azikiwe.
United Nations.
W. E. B. Du Bois.
West Indies.
Woodrow Wilson.
anticolonial nationalism.
anticolonial nationalists.
anticolonial worldmaking.
anticolonialism.
colonialism.
decolonization.
egalitarian international order.
empire.
enslavement.
international order.
nation-builders.
nondomination.
political theory.
postcolonial states.
racial hierarchy.
regional federation.
self-determination.
sovereign equality.
sovereign inequality.
unequal integration.
welfare world.
world order.
worldmaking.
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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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