A discourse on domination in mandate Palestine: imperialism, property and insurgency

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British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians. The validity of cultural representations as pronounced within official correspondence and colonial laws and regulations, as well as within the private papers of colonial officials, survives more or less intact. Ther…

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Full title :A discourse on domination in mandate Palestine : imperialism, property and insurgency / Zeina B. Ghandour.

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Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdom [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

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"A GlassHouse book."

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203880845, 0203880846, 9780415489935, 0415489938, 9780415685306, 0415685303
oclc:ocn471707028
LC Classification:DS126
Dewey Decimal:956.94/04

Chapter Introduction: This is not ethnography -- chapter 1 'Through their chiefs': The metanarrative of imperial rule in Africa and the East -- chapter 2 'Unmarked and undivided': Language, law and myth -- how to transform aboriginal landscape -- chapter 3 'Between the bazaar and the bungalow': A rebellion without rebels -- chapter 4 'Raising of the religious cry': How to make Muslims, moderates and extremists out of the élite -- chapter 5 The last word: The unusual suspects.

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Administrateurs coloniaux -- Attitudes … Britanniques -- Attitudes. -- Palestine British -- Attitudes British -- Attitudes. -- Palestine Colonial administrators -- Attitudes Colonial administrators -- Attitudes --… Great Britain History Imperialism -- Government policy Imperialism -- Government policy -- 20t… Impérialisme -- Politique gouvernementa… Mandates Mandates -- Palestine Mandats internationaux -- Palestine Middle East -- Palestine Opinion publique -- Grande-Bretagne Palestine -- Foreign public opinion, Br… Palestine -- Histoire -- 1917-1948 Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948 Public opinion