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000742607 1001_ $$aPedersen, Susan,$$d1959-
000742607 24514 $$aThe guardians :$$bthe League of Nations and the crisis of empire /$$cSusan Pedersen.
000742607 264_1 $$aOxford :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2015.
000742607 300__ $$axiv, 571 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c24 cm
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000742607 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000742607 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 519-546) and index.
000742607 5050_ $$aPrincipal Players -- Introduction: Guardians Assemble -- Part I. Making the Mandates System -- 1. Of Covenants and Carve-ups -- 2. Rules of the Game -- 3. A Whole World Talking -- Part II. Retreat from Self-Determination, 1923-1930 -- Preface: Allies and Rivals -- 4. News from the Orange River -- 5. Bombing Damascus -- 6. A Pacific People Says No -- Part III. New Times, New Norms, 1927-1933 -- Preface: Enter the Germans -- 7. The struggle over sovereignty -- 8. Market economies or command economies? -- 9. An independence safe for empire -- Part IV. Between Empire and Internationalism, 1933-39 -- Preface: Multiple exits -- 10. Legitimation Crisis -- 11. When empire stopped working -- 12. When internationalism stopped working -- Conclusion. Mandatory Statehood in the Making -- Appendix I: Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations -- Appendix II: Principal administrators of mandated territories -- A Note on Sources.
000742607 520__ $$a"A sweeping global history of the League of Nations' mandates system and the limits of imperial order"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000742607 520__ $$a"At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under 'mandate' from the new League of Nations. In the end, fourteen mandated territories were set up across the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Against all odds, these disparate and far-flung territories became the site and the vehicle of global transformation. In this masterful history of the mandates system, Susan Pedersen illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, Pedersen examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life figures, including Lord Lugard, King Faisal, Chaim Weizmann and Ralph Bunche, the narrative sweeps across the globe--from windswept scrublands along the Orange River to famine-blighted hilltops in Rwanda to Damascus under French bombardment--but always returns to Switzerland and the sometimes vicious battles over ideas of civilization, independence, economic relations, and sovereignty in the Geneva headquarters. As Pedersen shows, although the architects and officials of the mandates system always sought to uphold imperial authority, colonial nationalists, German revisionists, African-American intellectuals and others were able to use the platform Geneva offered to challenge their claims. Amid this cacophony, imperial statesmen began exploring new means--client states, economic concessions--of securing Western hegemony. In the end, the mandate system helped to create the world in which we now live. A riveting work of global history, The Guardians enables us to look back at the League with new eyes, and in doing so, appreciate how complex, multivalent, and consequential this first great experiment in internationalism really was"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000742607 586__ $$aCundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist, 2015.
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000742607 650_0 $$aImperialism$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000742607 650_0 $$aColonies$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000742607 650_0 $$aMandates$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000742607 650_0 $$aWorld politics$$y1919-1932.
000742607 650_0 $$aWorld politics$$y1933-1945.
000742607 650_0 $$aAnti-imperialist movements$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000742607 650_0 $$aInternationalism$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000742607 650_0 $$aInternational relations$$xHistory$$y20th century.
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