Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-DeterminationDecolonization 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 how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important new account of decolonization reveals the full extent of their unprecedented ambition to remake not only nations but the world. |
Contents
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Chapter 1 A Political Theory of Decolonization | 14 |
Preserving Racial Hierarchy in the League of Nations | 37 |
The Anticolonial Reinvention of SelfDetermination | 71 |
Chapter 4 Revisiting the Federalists in the Black Atlantic | 107 |
Chapter 5 The Welfare World of the New International Economic Order | 142 |
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Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination Adom Getachew Limited preview - 2020 |
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination Adom Getachew Limited preview - 2019 |