Worldmaking after empire : The rise and fall of self-determination / Adom Getachew
Imprint
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Descript
xii, 271 pages ; 25 cm
SUMMARY
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
CONTENT
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