Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 Subaltern Worldmaking after War 28
6. Chapter 2 Decolonization, the Violence Continuum, and the Greater Second World War 63
7. Chapter 3 The British Empire’s Pacific War 89
8. Chapter 4 Nodes of Empire, Ports of Solidarity 125
9. Chapter 5 Soviet and US Involvement in the Colonial World, 1939–1945 162
10. Chapter 6 A Global Metropolis 194
11. Chapter 7 The “Grand Alliance of Nations” 227
12. Chapter 8 Civil Aviation and Hemispheric Defense 256
13. Chapter 9 Armed Disorder 289
14. Chapter 10 Living with the Ghosts of Pan-Asianism? 313
15. Chapter 11 Hopes Foreclosed and a World Remade 342
16. Contributors 385
17. Index 389