PEDERSEN, SUSAN
Winner of the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.
The first comprehensive study for more than fifty years of the role played by the League of Nations in imperial politics and the end of empire.
Shows how imperial issues were central to the 'European crisis' of the 1930s and how these rivalries contributed to undermining empire.
Describes the shaping of the modern Middle East - Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine - by international and imperial interests.
Based on original and innovative research across four continents.