The guardians: the League of Nations and the crisis of empire

Principal Players

Introduction: Guardians Assemble

Part I. Making the Mandates System

1. Of Covenants and Carve-ups

2. Rules of the Game

3. A Whole World Talking

Part II. Retreat from Self-Determination, 1923-1930

Preface: Allies and Rivals

4. News from the Orange River

5. Bombing Damascus

6. A Pacific People Says No

Part III. New Times, New Norms, 1927-1933

Preface: Enter the Germans

7. The struggle over sovereignty

8. Market economies or command economies?

9. An independence safe for empire

Part IV. Between Empire and Internationalism, 1933-39

Preface: Multiple exits

10. Legitimation Crisis

11. When empire stopped working

12. When internationalism stopped working

Conclusion. Mandatory Statehood in the Making

Appendix I: Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations

Appendix II: Principal administrators of mandated territories

A Note on Sources.