The right of self-determination of peoples : the domestication of an illusion

Fisch, Jörg, (author.). Mage, Anita, 1968- (translator .).

Record details

ISBN: 9781107037960 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781107688209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: x, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-311) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Individual self-determination -- Collective self-determination -- The people -- Self-determination and the right of self-determination -- Early modern Europe : precursors of a right of self-determination? -- The first decolonization and the right to independence : the Americas 1776-1826 -- The French Revolution and the invention of the plebiscite -- From the European restoration to the First World War, 1815-1914 -- The First World War and the peace treaties 1918-1923 -- The interwar period, 1923-1939 -- The Second World War : the perversion of a great promise -- The Cold War and the second decolonization, 1945-1989 -- After 1989 : the quest for a new equilibrium.