"A sweeping global history of the League of Nations' mandates system and the limits of imperial order"--

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.