Susan PedersenThe Guardians
The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
Susan Pedersen is Professor and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University. She specializes in British history, the British Empire, comparative European history, and international history. She is the author of several books, including Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience.
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