Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination Contributor(s): Getachew, Adom (Author)

Winner of the J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics & History Section of the American Political Science Association Commendation Quotes: " Worldmaking after Empire is a breathtaking achievement on the history and theory of global justice. Anticolonialism, it turns out, mattered not for its emphatic nationalism so much as for its subaltern cosmopolitanism. The resources of the traditions Adom Getachew pioneeringly reconstructs are far from being exhausted even today. --Samuel Moyn, Yale University "This beautifully written and tremendously important book charts new territory and moves political theory in essential and innovative new directions." --Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College "Fundamentally shifting the conversation about anticolonial thought and practice, Worldmaking after Empire is a work of profound intellectual and historical recovery and a landmark contribution to the study of the twentieth-century global order. Essential reading, this masterful book speaks beautifully