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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.

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

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