The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s

Cover
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The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Introduction......Page 15
Section I: IMPERIAL INTERNATIONALISM......Page 33
1The Dominions and Britain in the 1920s......Page 35
The High Commissioner’s Office......Page 38
Who Speaks for Canada?......Page 45
The Dominions as International Actors......Page 47
The Dominions in Geneva......Page 48
Collective Imperial Decision Making......Page 56
Locarno......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 63
2 Servants of the World......Page 66
The League of Nations as a Site of International Governance......Page 69
Rachel Crowdy and International Civil Service......Page 74
The League’s Social and Humanitarian Work......Page 79
The Campaign Against the Traffic in Women and Children......Page 83
3 Moral Politics at the League of Nations and Its Imperial Ramifications......Page 96
The Perils of Legislating International Morality......Page 103
International Gender Politics......Page 105
The British Empire and the Anti-trafficking Campaign......Page 109
Conclusion......Page 120
4 Conflict and Travail, Bitterness and Tears: Overseas Indians' Failed Campaign for Imperial Citizenship......Page 123
The Indian Imperial Diaspora......Page 126
Contested Imperial Citizenship: Settler–Indian Conflict in East Africa......Page 128
The Humanitarian Lobby and Indigenous Rights......Page 144
The Devonshire Declaration and Its Aftermath......Page 148
East Indian Rights at the League of Nations......Page 151
Imperial Ramifications of the East Africa Indians’ Citizenship Controversy......Page 154
5 The Empire at Play, the Empire on Display: The 1911 Festival of Empire and the 1930 British Empire Games......Page 163
The Festival of Empire, 1911......Page 164
The British Empire Games, 1930......Page 169
The Supporters......Page 172
The Participants......Page 174
Overlapping Ideals: Amateurism, Internationalism, and Imperialism......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 185
Section II: TRANS-ATLANTIC INTERNATIONALISM......Page 187
6 Anglo-American Conceptions of International Society in the 1920s......Page 189
“Creating” International Affairs: Arnold Toynbee......Page 190
Cooperation Without Entanglement – American Internationalism in the 1920s......Page 194
The League of Nations Non-Partisan Association......Page 201
The CEIP and International Law......Page 208
The World Court......Page 213
Internationalism’s Limits: Intellectual Cooperation......Page 217
Lola Maverick Lloyd, Rosika Schwimmer, and Radical U.S. Internationalism......Page 222
Conclusion......Page 224
7 Little More than a Hope?: The World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches......Page 227
The Origins of the World War: Anglo-German Cooperation for Peace......Page 229
The Constance Conference, 1914......Page 235
The World Alliance and the First World War......Page 237
The World Alliance Reorganizes after the First World War......Page 240
The National Councils......Page 246
The World Alliance’s Outreach Work......Page 253
International Friendship......Page 256
Peace and Regional Reconciliation......Page 258
League of Nations Support......Page 261
Minorities and Refugees......Page 263
Disarmament and Outlawry......Page 267
Conclusion......Page 269
8 Internationalism by Decree: Outlawry of War and the Kellogg-Briand Pact......Page 273
ARTICLE II......Page 275
The Idea of Outlawry......Page 276
The Intellectual Genesis of Outlawry......Page 278
Philip Kerr’s Ideas on Outlawry and International Law......Page 281
The Kellogg-Briand Treaty......Page 288
Negotiating the Kellogg-Briand Pact......Page 291
9 British and American Responses to the Kellogg-Briand Pact......Page 299
Anglo-American Responses to the Peace Pact......Page 303
The Pact’s Implications: Real and Imagined......Page 309
Naval Implications......Page 310
The Pact’s Relationship with the League of Nations......Page 313
Anglo-American Union......Page 316
Kerr Campaigns for the Pact......Page 317
Conclusion......Page 320
Conclusion......Page 323
Archival Sources......Page 335
Printed Sources......Page 336
Newspapers and Periodicals......Page 337
Contemporary Sources: Books, Pamphlets, Letters, Memoirs, etc.......Page 338
Secondary Sources......Page 343
Index......Page 367