Imperialism on Trial

R. M. Douglas is Associate Professor of History at Colgate University. Michael D. Callahan is Associate Professor of History at Kettering University. Elizabeth Bishop teaches Middle Eastern history at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Editors' IntroductionChapter 3 "Mandated Territories Are Not Colonies": Britain, France, and Africa in the 1930sChapter 4 A Question of Trust: The Government of India, the League of Nations, and Mohandas GandhiChapter 5 Economic Imperialism in the Palestine MandateChapter 6 Japan's Retention of the South Seas Mandate, 1922-1947Chapter 7 Black Powerlessness in a Liberal Era: The NAACP, Anti-Colonialism, and the United Nations, 1942-1945Chapter 8 A Higher State of Imperialism? The Big Three, the UN Trusteeship Council and the Early Cold WarChapter 9 An Offer They Couldn't Refuse: The British Left, Colonies, and International Trusteeship, 1941-1951

A valuable contribution to the historical debate over twentieth-century colonialism, especially between wars. All of these essays raise important questions and indicate the rich potential of a subject like the interaction of imperialism and internationalism in the contemporary world.