League of Nations offers new perspectives on the history, legacies and impact of the League of Nations. The essays in this collection demonstrate how vastly diverse topics from film, education, Christian youth movements, colonial rule in the Pacific islands, national economic analyses, disarmament, humanitarianism and refugees as well as international relations, national sovereignty and domestic League of Nations associations--all led to Geneva. As well as the shared connection with Geneva and the League, the chapters are temporally aligned within the twenty-five-year lifespan of the League, from 1920 to 1946. Together the book revitalises the history of the League, and deepens understandings of how its 'many organs' operated and impacted on far-flung parts of the globe, simultaneously crossing borders and scholarly boundaries.

Patricia O'Brien (Author)
Patricia O'Brien is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of Tautai: Samoa, World History and the Life and Ta'isi O. F. Nelson and The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific, as well as numerous other works on gender, empire, race and colonial cultural history. From 2001 to 2013 she was the resident Australian and Pacific historian at Georgetown University, Washington DC, in 2011 the Jay I. Kislak Fellow in American Studies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington DC and the J. D. Stout Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Victoria University Wellington in 2012.