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The creation of the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) at the close of the First World War, and its successor, the United Nations Trusteeship Council (TC), following the Second, 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. 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.
Contents
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
