No Enchanted Palace The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

Name: No Enchanted Palace The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
Price: 12.92 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780691157955

ISBN-10: 0691157952

ISBN-13: 9780691157955

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark M. Mazower, Mark Mazower

List price: $16.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $18.08

Marketplace

4 new & used from $12.92

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

No Enchanted Palacetraces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian of a new and peaceful global order, offering instead a strikingly original interpretation of the UN's ideological roots, early history, and changing role in world affairs.Mazower brings the founding of the UN brilliantly to life. He shows how the UN's creators envisioned a world organization that would protect the interests of empire, yet how this imperial vision…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Jan Smuts and Imperial Internationalism



Alfred Zimmern and the Empire of Freedom



Nations, Refugees, and Territory


The Jews and the Lessons of the Nazi New Order



Jawaharlal Nehru and the Emergence of the Global United Nations


Afterword


Notes


Index