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9780739104897

Imperialism on Trial International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Historical Perspective

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739104897

  • ISBN10:

    0739104896

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-03-23
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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List Price: $108.00

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Editors' Introductionp. xi
"Mandated Territories Are Not Colonies": Britain, France, and Africa in the 1930sp. 1
A Question of Trust: The Government of India, the League of Nations, and Mohandas Gandhip. 21
Economic Imperialism in the Palestine Mandatep. 45
Japan's Retention of the South Seas Mandate, 1922-1947p. 61
Black Powerlessness in a Liberal Era: The NAACP, Anti-Colonialism, and the United Nations Organization, 1942-1945p. 85
A Higher Stage of Imperialism? The Big Three, the UN Trusteeship Council, and the Early Cold Warp. 111
An Offer They Couldn't Refuse: The British Left, Colonies, and International Trusteeship, 1940-1951p. 139
Appendixp. 167
Indexp. 175
About the Contributorsp. 181
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