Worldmaking after Empire (eBook)

The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

Adom Getachew (Autor)

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2019
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18434-0 (ISBN)

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Adom Getachew is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago.

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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 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.2.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Accra • Africa • American imperialism • Anticolonialism • anticolonial nationalism • anticolonial nationalists • anticolonial worldmaking • Anti-Imperialism • Atlantic World • authoritarianism • Balkanization • Berlin Conference • Bourgeoisie • British Empire • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • Citizenship • Civilizing Mission • Cold War • Collective Security • Colonialism • Congo Crisis • Constitutionalism • Criticism • Decolonization • Democracy • Democratic Socialism • Development Economics • Economic Integration • Economic planning • economy • egalitarian international order • Empire • Enslavement • Eric Williams • Ethiopia • Eurocentrism • federal union • George Padmore • Global Justice • Government • Great Power • Haitian Revolution • Harold Laski • humanitarian intervention • Ideology • imperialism • industrialisation • Institution • International Community • Internationalism (politics) • International Law • international order • International Organization • International Relations • jan smuts • Julius Nyerere • Kwame Nkrumah • League of Nations • League of Nations mandate • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Liberia • Marxism • Member State • Metropole • Modernity • Nationalism • Nationalization • nation-builders • Nation-Building • nation state • Neocolonialism • New International Economic Order • NIEO • Nnamdi Azikiwe • nondomination • Non-Interventionism • Oxford University Press • Pan-African Congress • pan-Africanism • Political Economy • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political theory • political union • Politics • popular sovereignty • Postcolonial states • racial hierarchy • Racism • Regime • regional federation • Self-determination • Seyla Benhabib • Slavery • sovereign equality • sovereign inequality • Sovereignty • Supranational union • Tanzania • Tax • The Papers of Thomas Jefferson • Trade Union • Treaty • unequal integration • Union of African States • United Nations • United Nations Charter • W. Arthur Lewis • Wealth • W. E. B. Du Bois • Welfare State • welfare world • West Indies • Westphalian Sovereignty • white supremacy • Woodrow Wilson • World Economy • World Government • Worldmaking • world order • World revolution • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18434-8 / 0691184348
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18434-0 / 9780691184340