AcknowledgmentsMapsIntroduction: Making a World of StatesChapter 1. Constitution as Archive: Drafting the Empire, 1848–1860sChapter 2. The Secret Science of Dual Sovereignty: 1867 and AfterChapter 3. Fictional States: Lands and NationsChapter 4. Pure Theory: Jellinek and Kelsen Reinvent Legal PhilosophyChapter 5. What Is a New State? 1919 in the History of the Austro-Hungarian EmpireChapter 6. State Birth at the Frontier of Knowledge: Reimagining International Law from Postimperial ViennaChapter 7. Sovereignty in Sequence: Law, Time, and DecolonizationConclusion: The Temporal Life of StatesNotesIndex