Britain, Palestine and empire : the mandate years /
Britain, Palestine and empire : the mandate years /
edited by Rory Miller, King's College London, UK.
- xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Flawed foundations: the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine mandate / James Renton -- The impact of league oversight on British policy in Palestine / Susan Pedersen -- "Our Jerusalem": Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British mandate / Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- Views of Palestine in British art in wartime and peacetime, 1914-1948 / Antoine Capet -- "Unholy statistics in the Holy Land": the fallacy of growth in the Palestinian rural economy during the 1920s and 1930s / Amos Nadan -- The Peel Commission and partition, 1936-1938 / Penny Sinanoglou -- Lawlessness was the law: British armed forces, the legal system, and brutality in Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-39 / Matthew Hughes -- "An oriental Ireland": thinking about Palestine in terms of the Irish question during the mandatory era / Rory Miller -- Sir Alan Cunningham and the view from Government House, 1945-48 / Motti Golani.
9780754668084 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Mandates--History--Palestine--20th century.
Politics and culture--History--Palestine--20th century.
Imperialism--History--20th century.
Palestine--History--1917-1948.
Palestine--Politics and government--1917-1948.
Palestine--Economic conditions--1917-1948.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--Palestine.
Palestine--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
--Reading book
956.9404 / BRI
Includes index.
Flawed foundations: the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine mandate / James Renton -- The impact of league oversight on British policy in Palestine / Susan Pedersen -- "Our Jerusalem": Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British mandate / Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- Views of Palestine in British art in wartime and peacetime, 1914-1948 / Antoine Capet -- "Unholy statistics in the Holy Land": the fallacy of growth in the Palestinian rural economy during the 1920s and 1930s / Amos Nadan -- The Peel Commission and partition, 1936-1938 / Penny Sinanoglou -- Lawlessness was the law: British armed forces, the legal system, and brutality in Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-39 / Matthew Hughes -- "An oriental Ireland": thinking about Palestine in terms of the Irish question during the mandatory era / Rory Miller -- Sir Alan Cunningham and the view from Government House, 1945-48 / Motti Golani.
9780754668084 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Mandates--History--Palestine--20th century.
Politics and culture--History--Palestine--20th century.
Imperialism--History--20th century.
Palestine--History--1917-1948.
Palestine--Politics and government--1917-1948.
Palestine--Economic conditions--1917-1948.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--Palestine.
Palestine--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
--Reading book
956.9404 / BRI