TY - BOOK AU - Getachew, Adom TI - Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination SN - 9780691202341 PY - 2019/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Decolonization KW - League of Nations KW - Self-Determination N1 - 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 ER -