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Fascism --- Fascisme --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World politics --- Causes --- Europe --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- World War, 1939-1945 - Causes --- World politics - 1933-1945 --- Europe - Foreign relations - 1918-1945 --- Europe - Politics and government - 1918-1945

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"C'est donc une histoire sans héros ni vrai scélérats non plus - juste des hommes. La fin de la guerre du Pacifique fut en dernière analyse un drame humain dont la dynamique fut déterminée par les caractéristiques très humaines des participants : l'ambition, la peur, la vanité, la colère et les préjugés". Ainsi se termine l'ouvrage de Tsyuyoshi Hasegawa consacré aux derniers mois d'un conflit qui mit aux prises trois acteurs : les États-Unis, l'Union soviétique, souvent négligée par les historiens qui ne lui réservent d'habitude qu'un rôle secondaire, et le Japon. Grâce à ses connaissances linguistiques exceptionnelles et à un examen minutieux des archives américaines, russes et japonaises, Hasegawa déconstruit sans complaisance les mythes accrédités par les histoires "nationales" d'un des épisodes les plus dramatiques du siècle dernier et dénoue un à un les fils de l'intrigue complexe qui aboutit au largage de la bombe atomique sur Hiroshima et à l'entrée en guerre de l'URSS. Pourquoi Truman et Staline refusèrent-ils de transiger sur l'exigence de capitulation sans conditions imposée au Japon ? Pourquoi les Japonais s'accrochèrent-ils si longtemps à l'espoir vain d'une médiation soviétique pour mettre un terme à la guerre ? Pourquoi Hirohito décida-t-il d'imposer sa "décision sacrée" d'arrêter la guerre à son gouvernement et à son armée ? Le Japon aurait-il fini par capituler sans la bombe atomique ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions abordées dans un ouvrage passionnant où Hasegawa réussit le pari d'allier la rigueur de l'historien à un indéniable talent de narrateur.

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World politics --- Ribbentrop, Joachim von, --- Germany --- Foreign relations --- -Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Ribbentrop, Joachim --- -World politics --- -Ribbentrop, Joachim --- Von Ribbentrop, Joachim, --- Ribbentrop, Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim, --- World politics - 1933-1945 --- Ribbentrop, Joachim von, - 1893-1946 --- Germany - Foreign relations - 1933-1945 --- Ribbentrop, Joachim von --- Von Ribbentrop, Joachim --- Ribbentrop, Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim

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"A sweeping global history of the League of Nations' mandates system and the limits of imperial order" "At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under 'mandate' from the new League of Nations. In the end, fourteen mandated territories were set up across the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Against all odds, these disparate and far-flung territories became the site and the vehicle of global transformation. In this masterful history of the mandates system, Susan Pedersen illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. As Pedersen shows, although the architects and officials of the mandates system always sought to uphold imperial authority, colonial nationalists, German revisionists, African-American intellectuals and others were able to use the platform Geneva offered to challenge their claims. Amid this cacophony, imperial statesmen began exploring new means--client states, economic concessions--of securing Western hegemony. In the end, the mandate system helped to create the world in which we now live. A riveting work of global history, The Guardians enables us to look back at the League with new eyes, and in doing so, appreciate how complex, multivalent, and consequential this first great experiment in internationalism really was" Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, Pedersen examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life figures, including Lord Lugard, King Faisal, Chaim Weizmann and Ralph Bunche, the narrative sweeps across the globe--from windswept scrublands along the Orange River to famine-blighted hilltops in Rwanda to Damascus under French bombardment--but always returns to Switzerland and the sometimes vicious battles over ideas of civilization, independence, economic relations, and sovereignty in the Geneva headquarters.

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Germans --- Political refugees --- World politics --- Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940. --- Exiles' writings, German --- History --- History and criticism. --- 830 <100> --- -World politics --- -Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940 --- -Political refugees --- -Asylum seekers --- Refugees, Political --- Refugees --- German exiles' writings --- German literature --- Finno-Russian War, 1939-1940 --- Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940 --- Winter War, 1939-1940 --- Talvisota, 1939-1940 --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Ethnology --- Exilliteratur --- -History and criticism --- -Theses --- -Exilliteratur --- 830 <100> Exilliteratur --- -Finno-Russian War, 1939-1940 --- Asylum seekers --- Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940 --- History and criticism --- Theses --- Germans - Foreign countries - History - 20th century. --- Political refugees - Germany - History - 20th century. --- World politics - 1933-1945. --- Exiles' writings, German - History and criticism.