No Enchanted Palace The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations 2009 First Edition by Mark Mazower ISBN 0691135215 780691135212

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ISBN 10: 0691135215

ISBN 13: 780691135212 

Author: Mark Mazower

A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United Nations

No Enchanted Palace traces 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 was decisively reshaped by the postwar reaffirmation of national sovereignty and the unanticipated rise of India and other former colonial powers. This is a story told through the clash of personalities, such as South African statesman Jan Smuts, who saw in the UN a means to protect the old imperial and racial order; Raphael Lemkin and Joseph Schechtman, Jewish intellectuals at odds over how the UN should combat genocide and other atrocities; and Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, who helped transform the UN from an instrument of empire into a forum for ending it.

A much-needed historical reappraisal of the early development of this vital world institution, No Enchanted Palace reveals how the UN outgrew its origins and has exhibited an extraordinary flexibility that has enabled it to endure to the present day.

Table of contents:

Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Jan Smuts And Imperial Internationalism

Chapter 2. Alfred Zimmern And The Empire Of Freedom

Chapter 3. Nations, Refugees, And Territory: The Jews And The Lessons Of The Nazi New Order

Chapter 4. Jawaharlal Nehru And The Emergence Of The Global United Nations

Afterword

Notes

Index

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