The British and French Mandates in the Middle East: The History of the Allied Powers’ Post-War Occupations via the League of Nations
Written by Charles River Editors
Narrated by Michelle Humphries
()
About this audiobook
The United Nations is one of the most famous bodies in the world, and its predecessor, the League of Nations, might be equally notorious. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson’s pet project was controversial from nearly the minute it was conceived. At the end of World War I, Wilson's pleas at the Paris Peace Conference relied on his Fourteen Points, which included the establishment of a League of Nations, but while his points were mostly popular amongst Americans and Europeans alike, leaders at the Peace Conference largely discarded them and favored different approaches. British leaders saw their singular aim as the maintenance of British colonial possessions. France, meanwhile, only wanted to ensure that Germany was weakened and unable to wage war again, and it too had colonial interests abroad that it hoped to maintain. Britain and France thus saw eye-to-eye, with both wanting a weaker Germany and both wanting to maintain their colonies. Wilson, however, wanted both countries to rid themselves of their colonies, and he wanted Germany to maintain its self-determination and right to self-defense. Wilson totally opposed the “war guilt” clause, which blamed the war on Germany.
One of the League’s most lasting legacies was the manner in which it handed over administrative control of land in the Middle East to the victorious Allied Powers, namely France and Britain. The Ottoman Empire quickly collapsed after World War I, and its extensive lands were divvied up between the French and British. The intention of the mandate system was to have the administrators peacefully and gradually usher in independent states, and both European powers eventually attempted to withdraw from the region, but anyone with passing knowledge of the Middle East’s history in the late 20th century knows that the region has seen little peace.
More audiobooks from Charles River Editors
The East India Company: The History of the British Empire's Most Famous Mercantile Company Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ur: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Sumerian Capital Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nineveh: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Assyrian Capital Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Project MK-Ultra: The History of the CIA’s Controversial Human Experimentation Program Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gnosticism: The History and Legacy of the Mysterious Ancient Religion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Legends of the West: Deadwood, South Dakota Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mossad: The History and Legacy of Israel’s National Intelligence Agency Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Life and Legacy of the Father of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mysteries of the South: Ghosts, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena in Dixie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cambrian Period: The History and Legacy of the Start of Complex Life on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Arnold Rothstein and Meyer Lansky: The Lives and Legacies of the Gangsters Who Reformed Organized Crime in America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSigmund Freud and Carl Jung: The Pioneering Lives and Works of History’s Most Influential Psychologists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life and Trial of Lizzie Borden: The History of 19th Century America's Most Famous Murder Case Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Denisovans: The History of the Extinct Archaic Humans Who Spread Across Asia during the Paleolithic Era Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Medieval England: The History of England from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Tudor Dynasty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMadame de Pompadour: The Life and Legacy of French King Louis XV’s Chief Mistress Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mysterious Midwest: Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena in America's Heartland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Culper Ring: The History and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Most Famous Spy Ring Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The British and French Mandates in the Middle East
Related audiobooks
Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Good Faith: A History of the Vietnam War Volume I: 1945-65 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vichy France: The History of Nazi Germany's Occupation of France during World War II Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Case Red: The Collapse of France Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Battle of the Somme: The History and Legacy of World War I’s Biggest Battle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Operation Typhoon: The History of the Fight for Moscow between the Nazis and Soviets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Napoleonic Wars Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Global Security System: An Alternative to War: Fifth Edition Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5America's Siberian Adventure, 1918-1920 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fight for China's Future: Civil Society vs. the Chinese Communist Party Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Middle Eastern History For You
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Egyptian Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Egyptian Myths, Gods, and Goddesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Islam: A Short History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Palestine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Generation Kill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Distant Lands: A Short History of the Crusades Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5From Beirut to Jerusalem Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mossad: The History and Legacy of Israel’s National Intelligence Agency Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Places in Between Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Terrorist Factory: ISIS, the Yazidi Genocide, and Exporting Terror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for The British and French Mandates in the Middle East
0 ratings0 reviews