Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Worldmaking after Empire 1
5. Chapter 1. A Political Theory of Decolonization 14
6. Chapter 2. The Counterrevolutionary Moment: Preserving Racial Hierarchy in the League of Nations 37
7. Chapter 3. From Principle to Right: The Anticolonial Reinvention of Self-Determination 71
8. Chapter 4. Revisiting the Federalists in the Black Atlantic 107
9. Chapter 5. The Welfare World of the New International Economic Order 142
10. Epilogue. The Fall of Self-Determination 176
11. Notes 183
12. Bibliography 225
13. Index 249
14. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 273