Imperialism on trial : international oversight of colonial rule in historical perspective / edited by R.M. Douglas, Michael D. Callahan, and Elizabeth Bishop.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Douglas, R. M., 1963-

Callahan, Michael D. (Michael Dennis)

Bishop, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--History--20th century.

Decolonization.

Imperialism--History--20th century.

Imperialism.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 184 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2006.

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.

Contents:

1 "Mandated Territories Are Not Colonies": Britain, France, and Africa in the 1930s / Michael D. Callahan 1

2 A Question of Trust: The Government of India, the League of Nations, and Mohandas Gandhi / Kevin Grant, Lisa Trivedi 21

3 Economic Imperialism in the Palestine Mandate / Elizabeth Bishop 45

4 Japan's Retention of the South Seas Mandate, 1922-1947 / Haruo Tohmatsu 61

5 Black Powerlessness in a Liberal Era: The NAACP, Anti-Colonialism, and the United Nations Organization, 1942-1945 / Daniel W. Aldridge III 85

6 A Higher Stage of Imperialism? The Big Three, the UN Trusteeship Council, and the Early Cold War / Gordon W. Morrell 111

7 An Offer They Couldn't Refuse: The British Left, Colonies, and International Trusteeship, 1940-1951 / R. M. Douglas 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739104896

OCLC:

69903811

Publisher Number:

9780739104897