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“A fascinating study of the advent of the League of Nations mandate system in Africa.” Choice
“Provides us with the best account we are likely to get of
the French and British ‘official mind’ about mandates.” Susan
Pedersen, Professor of History and James P. Shenton Professor of
the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, in a review essay in
American Historical Review (October 2007)
“In this definitive book the meticulous research and critical analysis
of Michael Callahan has brought clarity in the evolution of these murky mandates
from the old imperial order to the acceptance of neo-imperial trusteeship at
the beginning of the new. His scholarship will be rewarded as the source for
students, their teachers, and those scholars of every nationality who seek to
understand Africa in the lost but formative years between the two great wars
of the twentieth century.” Robert O. Collins, Professor of History
Emeritus, University of California Santa Barbara
“The best study of the colonial mandates in Africa and raises important questions about the evolution of colonial empires.” The International History Review
“An extensively researched and detailed study.” Journal of African History
“A book of profound historical research…which deserves to become a work of incalculable value to scholars of African history as well as international relations.” Anthony Kirk-Greene, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
This book compares the impact of the League of Nations mandates system on British and French rule in the African mandated territories. It examines the mandates system with particular attention to international relations as well as to national politics, the activities of pressure groups, and the bureaucracies of the two largest overseas empires. The book studies developments in international law, international organization, and the powers of the Permanent Mandates Commission.
The mandates system not only reflected the changing face of European colonialism, but also played a transforming role in its operation by influencing the economic, political, and cultural lives of Africans and Europeans within the mandated territories. The system led to the development of policies that transformed the relations between Europeans and Africans, and changed the way in which the colonial state exercised power within the mandated territories.
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Publication Details
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9781902210230 h/b |
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304 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
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September 1998 |
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£49.50 / $75.00 |
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