Title The crime of nationalism : Britain, Palestine, and nation-building on the fringe of empire / Matthew Kraig Kelly

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) Contents British causal primacy and the origins of the Palestinian Great Revolt -- "A wave of crime" : the criminalization of Palestinian nationalism, April-June 1936 -- "The policy is the criminal" : war on the discursive frontier, July-August 1936 -- The British awakening to the military nature of the rebellion, August-October 1936 -- The peel commission reconsidered -- Towards a rebel parastate: the Arab rejection of partition and the effort to institutionalize the revolt, 1937-38 -- New policy, new crime: the abortion of the Balfour Declaration -- The end of the revolt, 1939 Summary "The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born in the Great Revolt of 1936-39, a period of sustained Arab protest against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the key to understanding the Great Revolt lies in what he calls the crimino-national domain--the overlap between the criminological and the nationalist dimensions of British imperial discourse, and the primary terrain upon which the war of 1936-39 was fought. Kelly's analysis amounts to a new history of one of the major anticolonial insurgencies of the interwar period and a critical moment in the lead-up to Israel's founding. The Crime of Nationalism offers crucial lessons for the scholarly understanding of nationalism and insurgency more broadly."--Provided by publisher Analysis 1930s palestine 1930s 20th century academic analysis anticolonial arab british rule colonization colony crime criminal law discourse early 20th century great revolt imperial insurgency insurgents interwar israel law and order legal issues middle east middle eastern history modern world national movement nationalism palestine palestinian history post colonial rebellion scholarly social studies wartime world history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2017) Subject Violence -- Palestine -- History HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel. Diplomatic relations Politics and government Violence SUBJECT Palestine -- History -- Arab rebellion, 1936-1939. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097177 Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097172 Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Palestine Palestine -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097181 Subject Great Britain Middle East -- Palestine Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017019351 ISBN 9780520965256 0520965256

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