Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. I An Impractical Concept 1
5. Part 1: Many Beginnings
6. Introduction 23
7. II Sovereignty before Sovereignty 25
8. III The Inventors of Sovereignty 52
9. IV The Ascendance of Sovereignty 76
10. Part 2: Illusions of Coherence
11. Introduction 117
12. V Imperial Entanglements 119
13. VI The Fog of War 153
14. VII The Dawn of Decolonisation 187
15. Part 3: A Man in the Desert
16. Introduction 221
17. VIII Sovereignty on Ice 223
18. IX The (Dead) End of Sovereignty? 251
19. X The Mummy Returns 287
20. XI Quo Vadis, Sovereignty? 319
21. Bibliography 341
22. Index 371