Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years

In 1948, British troops withdrew from the Palestinian lands, ending over 30 years of the British Mandate of Palestine. What followed in the area now known as Israel, Palestine, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, has been well-documented and is perhaps one of the most intractable problems of the post-imperial age. However, relatively little has been written about the years of the British mandate and the long-standing connection between Britain and Palestine in the years up to May 1948. This volume takes a fresh look at the years of the British mandate; its politics, economics, and culture. 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 and a highly complex Palestinian society. The book will be valuable to scholars of the British mandate, but also more broadly to those interested in imperial history and the history of the West's involvement in the Middle East.

ISBN 0754668088   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780754668084 (What's this?)   Pages 208 Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group   Published in Aldershot Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited   Height (mm) 234 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 28 Sep 2010   Academic level General DEWEY 956.9404

		Acknowledgements
		Abbreviations
		About the Contributors
		Introduction: Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years by Rory Miller		1
1		Flawed Foundations: The Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate by James Renton		15
2		The Impact of League Oversight on British Policy in Palestine by Susan Pedersen		39
3		áOur Jerusalem': Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British Mandate by Heleen Murre-van den Berg		67
4		Views of Palestine in British Art in Wartime and Peacetime, 1914-1948 by Antoine Capet		85
5		No Holy Statistics in the Holy Land: The Fallacy of Growth in the Palestinian Rural Economy, 1920s-1930s by Amos Nadan		101
6		The Peel Commission and Partition, 1936-1938 by Penny Sinanoglou		119
7		Lawlessness was the Law: British Armed Forces, the Legal System and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939 by Matthew Hughes		141
8		áAn Oriental Ireland': Thinking about Palestine in Terms of the Irish Question during the Mandatory Era by Rory Miller		157
9		Palestine, 1945-1948: a View from the High Commissioner's Office by Motti Golani		177
		Index		189

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