Title Britain, Palestine, and empire : the mandate years / edited by Rory Miller

Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010

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Description 194 pages ;c 24 cm Contents 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 Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes ALSO available in ELECTRONIC FORMAT, search by title Subject Imperialism -- History -- 20th century. Mandates -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Mandates -- Palestine. Politics and culture -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Politics and culture -- Palestine. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056684 -- Palestine. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097163 Palestine -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000802 Palestine http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097163 -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005791 -- Great Britain. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097172 Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097181 Author Miller, Rory, 1971- LC no. 2010021508 ISBN 9780754668084 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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