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100 _aGetachew, Adom
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245 _aWorldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination
260 _aPrinceton
_bPrinceton University Press
_c2019
300 _axii, 271 p. ill.
_bIncludes bibliographical references and index
521 _aDecolonization 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
650 _aDecolonization
650 _aLeague of Nations
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650 _aSelf-Determination
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