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League of Nations

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, 2021
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“Sisters in Asia”: The League of Nations and Feminist Anticolonial Internationalism

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2022
This article uses the All-Asian Women’s Conference (AAWC), which brought elite feminist activists from six Asian nations together in Lahore in 1931, as a case study to investigate how the League of Nations influenced the first wave of international ...
Nova Robinson
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‘The League Will Not Ignore the Cry of the Negro Race for Justice’: Marcus Garvey, the League of Nations and South-West Africa

Journal of Southern African Studies, 2022
Marcus Garvey’s petitions to the League of Nations on behalf of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1922 and 1928 were a central but overlooked component of his anti-colonial politics in the 1920s. In both cases, Garvey’s main objective was to
D. Jones
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The League of Nations, Prostitution, and the Deportation of Chinese Women from Interwar Manila

Journal of Women's History, 2021
:The 1933 League of Nations report on the traffic in women and children across Asia included a passing mention of the deportation of nine hundred Chinese women from the American Philippines. In the League's decades-long campaign aimed at the abolition of
Julia T. Martínez
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Literary cosmopolitanism in the age of the League of Nations: Vernon Lee, Daniel Halévy and La Revue de Genève

Journal of European Studies, 2021
In 1921, the newly founded French-language periodical, La Revue de Genève, featured an exchange of letters between Daniel Halévy and Vernon Lee in which the two writers articulated contrasting visions of national identity and international literary ...
S. Evangelista
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Remaking Central Europe: the League of Nations and the former Habsburg lands

European Review of History, 2021
‘The League and Central Europe were “made” together’ (p. 363) is the starting point for Peter Becker and Natasha Wheatley’s recent book, and something that is often forgotten.
Benjamin J. Whitlock
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Beyond an Imperial Foreign Policy?: India at the League of Nations, 1919–1946

Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2020
This article argues that India’s role as the only non-self-governing member of the League of Nations provides a largely unexamined entry point into understanding the nature of Indian nationalism and public discourse during the first half of the twentieth
J. McQuade
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Liberal and Illiberal Internationalism in the Making of the League of Nations Convention on Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace

Journal of World History, 2020
The 1936 League of Nations Convention on the Use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace sought to shape a liberal international public sphere, through encouragement of empathetic and neighborly broadcasts to other nations and prohibitions on international
D. Goodman
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The Road to Collective Security: Soviet Russia, the League of Nations, and the Emergence of the ius contra bellum in the Aftermath of the Russian Revolution (1917–1934)

Politics and the Histories of International Law, 2020
This article argues that the quest for ‘peaceful coexistence’, sometimes depicted as an inherent quality of Soviet foreign policy, rather reflects a re-interpretation of actual practice in the light of subsequent developments – in connection with the ...
E. Henry
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Pioneers in International Administration: A Prosopography of the Directors of the League of Nations Secretariat

New Global Studies, 2019
This article investigates interwar internationalism from the perspective of the highest personnel of the first large-scale international administration, the League of Nations Secretariat.
T. Kahlert
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