Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transcription -- Introduction -- 1. The Ottoman Background of Palestinian Politics -- 2. Arabism and Ottomanism: The Young Turk Period before the War, 1908-1914 -- 3. Arab Reaction to Zionism, 1882-1914 -- 4. Older Ottomanists and Younger Reformers in World War I -- 5. Faysal's Arab Government: The Making and Unmaking of a King, 1918-1920 -- 6. The Eclipse of the Pan-Syrian Dream, 1918-1920 -- 7. The Beginnings of Political Organization in Palestine -- 8. The Crisis in Political Identity -- 9. The Ascendance of Palestinian Nationalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Studies Palestinian nationalism by covering the political elite of Palestine and their ideology from 1856 until December 1920, when the third Palestinian Arab Congress was held in Haifa to decide the future of Palestine
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index
