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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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