Mandates and Empire – The League of Nations and Africa, 1914–1931

Reviews of the cloth edition: A fascinating study of the advent of the League of Nations mandate system in Africa. - Choice *** Provides us with the best account we are likely to get of the French and British 'official mind' about mandates. - Susan Pedersen, Professor of History, Columbia U., in a review essay in American Historical Review (October 2007) *** In this definitive book the meticulous research and critical analysis of Michael Callahan has brought clarity in the evolution of these murky mandates from the old imperial order to the acceptance of neo-imperial trusteeship at the beginning of the new. His scholarship will be rewarded as the source for students, their teachers, and those scholars of every nationality who seek to understand Africa in the lost but formative years between the two great wars of the twentieth century. - Robert O. Collins, Professor of History Emeritus, U. of California Santa Barbara *** The best study of the colonial mandates in Africa and raises important questions about the evolution of colonial empires. - The International History Review *** An extensively researched and detailed study. - Journal of African History *** A book of profound historical research.which deserves to become a work of incalculable value to scholars of African history as well as international relations. - Anthony Kirk-Greene, St. Antony's College, Oxford