A League to Preserve Empires: Understanding the Mandates System and Avenues for Further Scholarly Inquiry.
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civil...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 124; no. 5; pp. 1723 - 1732 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2019
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