Imperialism on Trial - International Oversight of Colonial Rule in Historical Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Edited by R. M. Douglas; Michael D. Callahan and Elizabeth Bishop - Contributions by Daniel W. Aldridge III; R.M Douglas; Kevin P. Grant; Wm Roger Louis; Gordon W. Morrell; Haruo Tohmatsu and Lisa Trivedi Klappentext Imperialism on Trial reveals, across a broad cross-section of geographical and political settings, 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. Zusammenfassung Imperialism on Trial reveals! across a broad cross-section of geographical and political settings! 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Editors' Introduction Chapter 3 "Mandated Territories Are Not Colonies": Britain, France, and Africa in the 1930s Chapter 4 A Question of Trust: The Government of India, the League of Nations, and Mohandas Gandhi Chapter 5 Economic Imperialism in the Palestine Mandate Chapter 6 Japan's Retention of the South Seas Mandate, 1922-1947 Chapter 7 Black Powerlessness in a Liberal Era: The NAACP, Anti-Colonialism, and the United Nations, 1942-1945 Chapter 8 A Higher State of Imperialism? The Big Three, the UN Trusteeship Council and the Early Cold War Chapter 9 An Offer They Couldn't Refuse: The British Left, Colonies, and International Trusteeship, 1941-1951

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• Authors: R. M. (EDT)/ Callahan Douglas
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Bishop (Editor), Bishop Elizabeth (Editor), Michael D Callahan (Editor), Michael D. Callahan (Editor), Callahan Michael D. (Editor), R M Douglas (Editor), R. M. Douglas (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2006
• EAN: 9780739104897
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0489-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence