The end of empires and a world remade: a global history of decolonization

Introduction: Ending empire and remaking the world

Part I: Globalizing decolonization. Decolonization and the end of empires

Decolonization and globalization

Decolonization and its alternatives

Part II: Tracing paths of empire destruction. Greater war and decolonization's first global wave

The economic side of empire decline

Making declonization's global cultures

Decolonization in the greater Second World War

Revolutionary decolonization in Southeast Asia?

Partitions dissected

Hiding wars

Decolonization and the civilianization of violence

Political economics of decolonization and development

Political economies of decolonization II: the 1950s and 1960s

Conference cultures and third-world decolonization

Endgames? Decolonization's third-world wars

Conclusion: A world remade by decolonization?