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Cover: 9780198743491 | The Guardians | The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire | Buch

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Beschreibung

Winner of the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, it is a comprehensive study of the role played by the League of Nations and how its actions shaped the modern world of nation states.

Über den Autor

Susan Pedersen was born to Canadian missionary parents and spent her childhood in Japan and Minnesota. Rescued by Harvard at the age of 18, she spent the next 26 years there as a student, faculty member, and sometime Dean for Undergraduate Education. A historian of Britain and Europe with wide interests and an a penchant for far-flung research, she has written on subjects ranging from the history of women's movements, to the origins of welfare states, to British rule in Kenya, Hong Kong, and Palestine. Since 2003, she has been on the faculty at Columbia University, where she teaches courses on British and international history, and on 'great books' from Plato to Nietzsche. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, 1933-1939

Preface: Multiple exits

10: Legitimation Crisis

11: When empire stopped working

12: When internationalism stopped working

Conclusion: Mandatory Statehood in the Making

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Neuzeit
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	590
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198743491
ISBN-10:	0198743491
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pedersen, Susan
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Maße:	233 x 156 x 38 mm
Von/Mit:	Susan Pedersen
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.07.2017
Gewicht:	0,909 kg

preigu-id: 126890176

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, 1933-1939

Preface: Multiple exits

10: Legitimation Crisis

11: When empire stopped working

12: When internationalism stopped working

Conclusion: Mandatory Statehood in the Making

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Neuzeit
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	590
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198743491
ISBN-10:	0198743491
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pedersen, Susan
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Maße:	233 x 156 x 38 mm
Von/Mit:	Susan Pedersen
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.07.2017
Gewicht:	0,909 kg