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Imperial Internationalisms’ in the 1920s: The Shaping of Colonial Affairs at the League of Nations

Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2020
The evolving internationalisation of imperial and colonial affairs fostered the emergence of specific, and interrelated, arguments, institutional arrangements and repertoires of political action regarding colonial societies.
M. Jerónimo
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Setting New Standards: International Feminism and the League of Nations' Inquiry into the Status of Women

Journal of Women's History, 2019
:In 1937, the League of Nations decided to undertake an international inquiry into the status of women and nominated an expert committee to conduct the research. This was the result of interwar feminist agitation for an international equal rights treaty.
Regula Ludi
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League of Nations

2019
1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World ...
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The institution of international order: from the League of Nations to the United Nations, edited by Simon Jackson and Alanna O’Malley. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.Pp. xvi + 247. Hardback £115.00, ISBN: 978-1-138-09150-4.

Journal of Global History, 2019
Susan Pedersen, who authored the Foreword to this excellent volume, wrote in 2007 that ‘the relevant question now is not ‘why the League failed’ but rather the more properly historical question of what it did and meant over its twenty-five-year existence’
M. Patrick Cottrell
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Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations, and international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples

London Review of International Law, 2019
In 1923, Levi General Deskaheh sought recognition from the League of Nations of the Six Nations’ sovereignty and right to self-determination. Although scholars have good reasons for retroactively identifing Deskaheh as a representative of Indigenous ...
S. Young
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League Of Nations

2000
The League of Nations was designed to be a voluntary association of the member states, establishing as organs a permanent Secretariat with its seat in Geneva, a League Assembly of the members and a League Council . With regard to the administration of territories as consequence of the Paris Peace Treaties, the German city Danzig was put as a Free ...
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A League of Their Own: The Soviet Origins of the United Nations

Journal of Contemporary History, 2019
An analysis of the USSR's role in the creation of the United Nations, with particular reference to the impact on Soviet decision makers of the historical experience of the League of Nations.
Geoffrey K. Roberts
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Being international in times of war: Arthur Sweetser and the shifting of the League of Nations to the United Nations

European Review of History, 2018
Transnational actors are increasingly surfacing when it comes to understanding the global dimensions of the modern nation-state. Thinking of the modern state from the diversity of its personnel and its many intersections with private and semi-private ...
M. Herren, Isabella Löhr
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Leagues of Nations

Current History, 2013
A new book traces the fitful evolution of international order and institutions from the Congress of Vienna to the advent of humanitarian interventions.
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Debating volume: architectural versus electrical amplification in the League of Nations, 1926–28

Journal of Architecture, 2018
In the debates following the 1926–27 competition for the new headquarters of the League of Nations in Geneva, conflicting contemporary ideas about architecture were manifested in approaches to sound.
Sabine von Fischer
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