"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…
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"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…