Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

by Susan Pedersen

Book Overview

At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under "mandate"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190619120
• ISBN13: 9780190619121
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"