Imperialism on Trial: International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Historical PerspectiveR. M. Douglas, Michael Dennis Callahan, Elizabeth Bishop Lexington Books, 2006 - Počet stran: 184 The creation of the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) at the close of World War I and its successor, the United Nations Trusteeship Council (TC), following World War II, were watersheds in the history of modern imperialism. For the first time, the international community had asserted that the well-being of colonial peoples was not merely the private concern of metropolitan states, but a shared responsibility of humankind that transcended national boundaries. Editors R.M. Douglas, Michael D. Callahan, and Elizabeth Bishop have assembled a wide array of scholars to assess the relative weight to be placed on international influence in the process of decolonization. Across a broad cross-section of geographical and political settings, Imperialism on Trial reveals the operation of the complicated and often conflicted dynamic between the national and international dimensions of colonialism in its final and most historically consequential phase. Book jacket. |
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Mandated Territories Are Not Colonies Britain France and Africa in the 1930s | 1 |
A Question of Trust The Government of India the League of Nations and Mohandas Gandhi | 21 |
Economic Imperialism in the Palestine Mandate | 45 |
Japans Retention of the South Seas Mandate 19221947 | 61 |
Black Powerlessness in a Liberal Era The NAACP AntiColonialism and the United Nations Organization 19421945 | 85 |
A Higher Stage of Imperialism? The Big Three the UN Trusteeship Council and the Early Cold War | 111 |
An Offer They Couldnt Refuse The British Left Colonies and International Trusteeship 19401951 | 139 |
Appendix | 167 |
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About the Contributors | 183 |
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