TY  - BOOK
AU  - Getachew,Adom
TI  - Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination 
SN  - 9780691179155
AV  - KZ1269 .G48 2019
U1  - 341.26 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Anti-imperialist movements
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Africa
KW  - American imperialism
KW  - Eric Williams
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - George Padmore
KW  - Jan Smuts
KW  - Kwame Nkrumah
KW  - League of Nations
KW  - Liberia
KW  - NIEO
KW  - New International Economic Order
KW  - Nnamdi Azikiwe
KW  - United Nations
KW  - W. E. B. Du Bois
KW  - West Indies
KW  - Woodrow Wilson
KW  - anticolonial nationalism
KW  - anticolonial nationalists
KW  - anticolonial worldmaking
KW  - anticolonialism
KW  - colonialism
KW  - decolonization
KW  - egalitarian international order
KW  - empire
KW  - enslavement
KW  - international order
KW  - nation-builders
KW  - nondomination
KW  - political theory
KW  - postcolonial states
KW  - racial hierarchy
KW  - regional federation
KW  - self-determination
KW  - sovereign equality
KW  - sovereign inequality
KW  - unequal integration
KW  - welfare world
KW  - world order
KW  - worldmaking
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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 --; A NOTE ON THE TYPE; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 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.Adom Getachew shows that African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists were not solely or even primarily nation-builders. Responding to the experience of racialized sovereign inequality, dramatized by interwar Ethiopia and Liberia, Black Atlantic thinkers and politicians challenged international racial hierarchy and articulated alternative visions of worldmaking. Seeking to create an egalitarian postimperial world, they attempted to transcend legal, political, and economic hierarchies by securing a right to self-determination within the newly founded United Nations, constituting regional federations in Africa and the Caribbean, and creating the New International Economic Order.Using archival sources from Barbados, Trinidad, Ghana, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Worldmaking after Empire recasts the history of decolonization, reconsiders the failure of anticolonial nationalism, and offers a new perspective on debates about today's international order
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691184340?locatt=mode:legacy
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