Download or read book Draft Mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine written by League of Nations. Council and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mandate for Mesopotamia written by Charles River and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The United Nations is one of the most famous bodies in the world, and its predecessor, the League of Nations, might be equally notorious. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson's pet project was controversial from nearly the minute it was conceived. At the end of World War I, Wilson's pleas at the Paris Peace Conference relied on his Fourteen Points, which included the establishment of a League of Nations, but while his points were mostly popular amongst Americans and Europeans alike, leaders at the Peace Conference largely discarded them and favored different approaches. British leaders saw their singular aim as the maintenance of British colonial possessions. France, meanwhile, only wanted to ensure that Germany was weakened and unable to wage war again, and it too had colonial interests abroad that it hoped to maintain. Britain and France thus saw eye-to-eye, with both wanting a weaker Germany and both wanting to maintain their colonies. Wilson, however, wanted both countries to rid themselves of their colonies, and he wanted Germany to maintain its self-determination and right to self-defense. Wilson totally opposed the "war guilt" clause, which blamed the war on Germany. Although the League of Nations was short-lived and clearly failed in its primary mission, it did essentially spawn the United Nations at the end of World War II, and many of the UN's structures and organizations came straight from its predecessor, with the concepts of an International Court and a General Assembly coming straight from the League. More importantly, the failures of the League ensured that the UN was given stronger authority and enforcement mechanisms, most notably through the latter's Security Council, and while the League dissolved after a generation, the UN has survived for over 70 years. One of the League's most lasting legacies was the manner in which it handed over administrative control of land in the Middle East to the victorious Allied Powers, namely France and Britain. The Ottoman Empire quickly collapsed after World War I, and its extensive lands were divvied up between the French and British. While the French gained control of the Levant, which would later become modern day nations like Syria and Lebanon, the British were given mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine. The British Mandate for Palestine gave the British control over the lands that have since become Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, while Mesopotamia covered modern Iraq. British interest in supporting Arab nationalist aspirations at the onset of the war were clearly premised on the wider strategic objectives of defeating the Ottomans, and notwithstanding the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the concept of a single, unified Arab state under Hashemite rule would never come to fruition. By way of unintended consequences, however, Arab nationalism took root with the fall of the Ottomans, which would sow the seeds of many of the problems that the British would subsequently face in the Middle East, in particular in Mesopotamia. The British, like so many others since, failed to grasp the full complexity of Arab sectarianism and the cross-currents of internal politics, and with a policy premised on their own broad strategic interests, they simply laid the groundwork of future political catastrophe for Iraq and the Middle East in general. Thus, while the intention of the mandate system was to have the administrators peacefully and gradually usher in independent states, and both European powers eventually attempted to withdraw from the region, anyone with passing knowledge of the Middle East's history in the 20th century knows that the region has seen little peace.
Download or read book Mandates written by League of Nations. Council and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mandate for Mesopotamia and the Principle of Trusteeship in English Law Classic Reprint written by Duncan Campbell Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mandate for Mesopotamia and the Principle of Trusteeship in English Law Seeking with an open mind an answer to these questions, I have obtained information from various sources, such as the published correspondence between the Department of State at Washington and the British Foreign Office, per sonal informal talks with officials at the Colonial Office, the letters of Mr. Perceval Landon, written from Meso potamia and published in the Daily Telegraph during the last few weeks, the well-known Report on the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia, by Miss Gertrude Bell, and other like authorities. I have tried to form an estimate of what has been, and is, taking place since Britain accepted the Mandate. May I bring my lecture to a close by a brief summary of the opinion I have formed? The response Britain has already made to this high call is a complete refutation of the charges made against her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Mandate for Mesopotamia and the Principle of Trusteeship in English Law written by Duncan Campbell Lee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Establishment of the British Mandate for Mesopotamia written by Helena May Dolfin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mesopotamia and the British Mandate written by Arthur Baker and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mandate for Mesopotamia and the Principle of Trusteeship in English Law written by Duncan Campbell Lee and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Mandate for Mesopotamia and the Principle of Trusteeship in English Law written by Lee Campbell and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Draft Mandate for Mesopotamia and Palestine written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mandate for Mesopotamia and the Principle of Trusteeship in English Law A Lecture Etc written by Duncan Campbell LEE and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Old Mesopotamia to the New British Mandate in Iraq written by Henry Albert Foster and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia written by Stephen Bertman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate man's understanding of the ancient world. This illustrated handbook describes the culture, history, and people of Mesopotamia, as well as their struggle for survival and happiness.
Download or read book The Mandate for Mesopotamia and the Principle of Trusteeship in English Law written by D. Campbell Lee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desert Hell written by Charles Townshend and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Iraq was created deliberately by the British over the seven years following their first invasion in 1914. Charles Townshend provides an informative and compelling explanation of that conquest and examines how an initially cautious strategic invasion by British forces led to imperial expansion on a vast scale.
Download or read book Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914 1958 written by D. K. Fieldhouse and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'Fertile Crescent' is commonly used as shorthand for the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Here it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. Much has been written on the history of these countries which were taken from the Ottoman empire after 1918 and became Mandates under the League of Nations. For the most part the histories of these countries have been handled either individually or as part of the history of Britain or France. In the first instance the emphasis has normally been on the development of nationalism and local resistance to alien control in a particular territory, leading to the modern successor state. In the second most studies have concentrated separately on how either France or Britain handled the great problems they inherited, seldom comparing their strategies. The aim of this book is to see the region as a whole and from both the European and indigenous points of view. The central argument is that the mandate system failed in its stated purpose of establishing stable democratic states out of what had been provinces or parts of provinces within the Ottoman empire. Rather it generated basically unstable polities and, in the special case of Palestine, one totally unresolved, and possibly unsolvable, conflict. The result was to leave the Middle East as perhaps the most volatile part of the world in the later twentieth century and beyond. The main purpose of the book is to examine why this was so.
Download or read book Inventing Iraq written by Toby Dodge and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodge offers a sobering look back at the first attempt by a Western power to remake Iraq in its own image.
