Colonialism and Its Legacies

Colonialism and Its Legacy brings together essays by leading scholars in both the fields of political theory and the history of political thought about European colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political theory. The essays explore the ways in which European colonial projects structured and shaped much of modern political theory, how concepts from political philosophy affected and were realized in colonial and imperial practice, and how we can understand the intellectual and social world left behind by a half-millennium of European empires. The volume ranges from the beginning of modernity to the present day, examining colonialism and colonial legacies in India, Africa, Latin America, and North America.

Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory at McGill University in Montreal.

1 Preface and dedication 2 Introduction 3 Part I: Enlightenment Debates about Empire 4 Chapter 1. Diderot's Theory of Global (and Imperial) Commerce: An Enlightenment Account of "Globalization" 5 Chapter 2. Empire, Progress, and "the Savage Mind" 6 Part II: Indigenous Encounters, Then and Now 7 Chapter 3. Under Negotiation: Empowering Treaty Constitutionalism 8 Chapter 4. Wasáse: Indigenous Resurgences 9 Part III: The world colonialism made 10 Chapter 5. The "World-System": Europe as "Center" and Its "Periphery" Beyond Eurocentrism 11 Chapter 6. The Singularity of Peripheral Social Inequality 12 Chapter 7. After Colonialism: The Impossibility of Self-Determination 13 Chapter 8. Indian Conceptualisation of Colonial Rule 14 Part IV. Colonial and post-colonial reconstructions of political thought 15 Chapter 9. Resistance to Colonialism: The Latin American Legacy of Jose Martí 16 Chapter 10. Subaltern History as Political Thought 17 Chapter 11. Double Consciousness and the Democratic Ideal 18 Chapter 12. Colonial