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" Britain, Palestine, and empire : "
Rory Miller
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BL
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585035
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b414254
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| Main Entry
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Miller, Rory,1971-
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Britain, Palestine, and empire : : the mandate years /\ Rory Miller
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xiii, 194 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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9780754668084
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: 0754668088
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Includes index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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This volume takes a fresh look at the years of the British mandate; its politics, economics, and culture. The contributors address themes such as religion, mandatory administration, economic development, policing and counter-insurgency, violence, art and culture, and decolonization, in the context of imperial power
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Mandates-- Palestine-- History-- 20th century
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Politics and culture-- Palestine-- History-- 20th century
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Imperialism-- History-- 20th century
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Palestine, History, 1917-1948
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Palestine, Politics and government, 1917-1948
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Palestine, Economic conditions, 1917-1948
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Great Britain, Foreign relations, Palestine
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Palestine, Foreign relations, Great Britain
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956.94/04
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DS126.M54 2010
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