Overview

The League of Nations was the first globally recognized inter-governmental body that attempted to organise peace comprehensively. It addressed not only the traditional security areas of military balances and diplomacy, including the peaceful settlement of international disputes, but also aimed at removing the very causes of war by promoting social and economic justice (specifically by addressing the welfare of vulnerable people). In many ways decades ahead of its time, the League broke the mould as a mechanism for ‘doing international relations’. New to the Seminar Studies in History Series, it contains valuable primary source material, a Glossary, Bibliography and Who's Who.

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Author:   Martyn Housden
Publisher:   Pearson Education Limited
Imprint:   Longman
Dimensions:   Width: 24.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 17.10cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9781408228241

ISBN 10:   1408228246
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   31 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

Contents   Acknowledgements   Chronology   Who’s Who   Glossary   Introduction    Organising the peace of the world.   Chapter 1    What was the League of Nations?    Chapter 2    How new was the League of Nations?   Chapter 3    A promising start? Disputes, borders and national minorities in the 1920s.   Chapter 4    International humanitarian action: refugees and security.   Chapter 5    Removing the causes of war: social and economic projects.   Chapter 6    The League betrayed: collective security in the 1930s and    disarmament.   Conclusion Assessing the League of Nations.   Documents   Further Reading   References   Index

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Martyn Housden has written two historical monographs and four other History texts, including Resistance and Conformity in the Third Reich (London: Routledge, 1997) and Hitler: Biography of a Revolutionary (Routledge, 2000). More recently he has produced a number of articles about the League of Nations, for instance:  ‘What makes our world safe?’, Twentieth Century History Review (in press), and ‘Fridtjof Nansen and the League of Nations: 1920-22’, Twentieth Century History Review 3 (2008).

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