«At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood …
"A sweeping global history of the League of Nations' mandates system and the limits of imperial order"-- "At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories a…
"What happens to empires under international scrutiny? At the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919 Allied statesmen agreed to govern seized German and Ottoman territories under mandate from the newly-formed League of Nations. By professing their attachment to humanitarian norms and…
"What happens to empires under international scrutiny? At the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919 Allied statesmen agreed to govern seized German and Ottoman territories under mandate from the newly-formed League of Nations. By professing their attachment to humanitarian norms and…