| Description |
1 online resource (549 pages) |
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Israeli History, Politics and Society |
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Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and glossary; Introduction; 1 Britain and Zionism: The domestic context; 2 World War One: Britain assumes the Palestine mandate; 3 Palestine and the Near East, 1919-23; 4 The military administration, 1918-20; 5 Colonial Palestine; 6 Redefining policy in Palestine; 7 1923: The Balfour Declaration challenged; 8 Paying for Empire in the 1920s; 9 The Yishuv economy in the 1920s; 10 The unravelling of the mandate, 1929-31; 11 The Arab rebellion, I: April-October 1936 |
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12 The Arab rebellion, II: July 1937-April 193913 Appeasement in the Middle East, 1937-39; 14 World War Two: The Jews; 15 The Allies, the Zionists and the Holocaust; 16 World War Two: The British and the Arabs; 17 The Arabs and Nazi Germany; 18 The Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin, 1941-45; 19 Why the British left; 20 The British lose control in Palestine; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration for military and strategic reasons. This book analyses why and how the British took on the Palestine Mandate. It explores how their interests and policies changed during its course and why they evacuated the country in 1948. During the first decade of the Mandate the British enjoyed an influx of Jewish capital mobilized by the Zionists which enabled them not only to fund the administration of Palestine, but also her own regional imperial projects. But in the mid-1930s, as the clouds of World War Two gathered, Britain's commitm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097172
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Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097181
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Palestine
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Palestine -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Middle East -- Palestine
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317913641 |
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1317913647 |
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