The League of Nations' Work on Social Issues : Visions, Endeavours and Experiments / UN.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

UN.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

United Nations.

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This edited volume offers a fresh look into the history of the League of Nations. It uses the League of Nations' involvement in social issues as a unique prism for understanding the League's development, as well as the development of interwar international relations more generally. Off the beaten path of diplomatic history, this perspective allows the authors to trace less familiar actors and unexpected alliances. It enables contributors to reassess the League's impact on European societies, their colonial possessions, and non-European states. As such, it also marks a paradigm shift in the League's Eurocentric historiography toward one that acknowledges its global reach.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Race problems, social issues: The Portuguese empire and the racial equality proposal, Paris 1919

Negotiating "social progress": German planters, African workers and mandate administrators in the British Cameroons (1925-1939)

The league of nations and the Rockefeller foundation: International activism in public health

Turf Wars at the league of nations: International anti-cannabis policies and oversight in Syria and Lebanon, 1919-1939

A league of its own? The league of nations' child welfare committee (1919-1936) and international monitoring of child welfare policies

Illustrations

Inhabiting different worlds: The league of nations and the protection of national minorities, 1920-30

New York critics: The United States, the league of Nations, and the traffic in women

Regulated brothels in mandatory Syria and Lebanon: Between the traffic in women and the permanent mandate commissions

The league of Nations health organization: Water, health and development in colonial Africa, 1925-40

An internationalist pioneer: Fridtjof Nansen and the social issues of the league of nations

A category "easy to liquidate": The league of nations, Russian refugee children in the 1920s and the history of humanitarianism.

ISBN:

9789210577021

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