The League of Nations: Perspectives from the Present (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788771846201)

The League of Nations - Perspectives from the Present is an accessible and richly illustrated edited volume displaying a wide variety of cutting-edge research on the many ways the League of Nations shaped its times, and continues to shape our contemporary world. A series of bite-size studies, divided into three thematic parts, investigates how the League affected the world around it and the lives of the people who became part of this 'first great experiment' in international organisation. Recent research has reinterpreted the League as a laboratory of global economic, political and humanitarian governance. Expanding on this, the volume aims to show that the League is an 'academic site', where international history - as a discipline - has re-invented itself by integrating new approaches from social, cultural and media history. With an introduction by Director-General Michael M ller of the United Nations Organisation in Geneva, this work is a timely reminder of the fragile, varied and enduring history of multilateralism, on the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Author: Haakon A. Ikonomou
ISBN-10: 8771846204
ISBN-13: 9788771846201
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2019
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.91lbs
Size: 10.00h x 9.30w x 1.00d