The guardians the League of Nations and the crisis of empire Susan Pedersen

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List of Illustrations -- List of Tables and Maps -- Principal 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 and Appearances before the PMC -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

"A landmark work of global history, powerfully argued and superbly researched, "The Guardians" explains how the modern international order of normative statehood came to be. In an account rich in people and institutions, structures and contingencies, Pedersen demonstrates how imperial ambitions, nationalist claims, revanchism, and idealism collided and combined in Geneva and on the ground in the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s. As an analysis of the unintended consequences that internationalism set in train, the book is bracing. The histories Pedersen tells, both human and institutional, are haunting."--

"It is not just the staggering research in this book, both far-flung across the globe and incomparably deep; it is not just its exemplary and unprecedented success in combining the stories of great politicians in imperial capitals and international bureaucrats in Geneva with those of ordinary people making claims the world over; it is not just the unending drama of the tumultuous era and the lovely prose in which it is presented. For Susan Pedersen does nothing less than reconstruct the making of our times, as the struggle to continue intolerable empire in the name of paternalism and progress set off unexpected forces that created our unhappy world of nation states, rich and poor. With "The Guardians", international history reaches its contemporary pinnacle."--

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"Two years of intensive research in 2005-6 and 2008-9 were supported by fellowships from [...], and the American Academy in Berlin [...]."-- p.415