Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition

by Hendrik Spruyt

Book Overview

At the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades after World War II, many of the great empires had dissolved, and more recently, multinational polities have similarly disbanded. This process of reallocating patterns of authority, from internal hierarchy to inter-state relations, proved far more contentious in some cases than in others. While some governments exited the colonial era without...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801489725
• ISBN13: 9780801489723
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 14.5" x 9.2"