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By the end of World War II, strategists in Washington and London looked ahead to a new era in which the United States shouldered global responsibilities and Britain concentrated its regional interests more narrowly. The two powers also viewed the Muslim world through very differ…
"Land of progress" brings Palestinian history out of the narrow confines of the Arab-Zionist conflict by restoring Palestine to the wider history of empire in the early twentieth century. It demonstrates the extent to which Palestine was viewed as a crucial sphere of British col…
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 decolonizat…
Draws on newly available documents from the National Archives in Britain to chronicle the historical events and key campaigns that led to the creation of Israel.
Draws on newly available documents from the National Archives in Britain to chronicle the historical events and key campaigns that led to the creation of Israel.
This book examines the personal vision of General Sir John Glubb, British pro-Consul in the Middle East and commander of the Arab Legion between 1936-1956. It offers the first in-depth account of Glubb's thinking and actions during 1948, as he led his small army into Palestine a…
"With thoughtful use of primary sources, Uri Ben-Eliezer provides a serious, sustained, and critical look at the place of the military in Israeli society. He maintains that from the early days of the Yishuv, militarism and the military have become a way of life for Israelis. Foc…
With an approach both personal and symbolic, this volume leads readers through the imagined worlds, delusions, discoveries, questions, hopes, ambivalences, anxieties, and historical, cultural and psychological dynamics of six German-Jewish writers and intellectuals who arrived i…
This diary, kept between 1914 and 1919 by the Spanish consul in Jerusalem, offers insight into the wartime upheavals, battles among local churches over control of the city's holy places, the development of Zionism, and the establishment of British rule in Palestine.
"Hundreds of Palestinian villages were left empty across Israel when their residents became refugees after the 1948 war. Most of these villages were razed by the new State of Israel, their lands and property confiscated, but in dozens of others, communities of Jews were settled-…
Details Churchill's friendship with individual Jews, especially Chaim Weizmann, and, more importantly, his Zionism, from his support for the implementation of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 through the establishment of the Jewish state. Churchill was consistent in this regard n…
This book examines an often-neglected aspect of the British leader's career: his relationship to Jews and Jewish issues. Drawing on a treasure trove of primary documents, Gilbert shows how Churchill grew beyond the kind of friendship with individual British Jews that his father …
This title shows how Arab Christians struggled to balance religious and nationalist identities in Palestine between 1917 and 1948. Noah Haiduc-Dale focuses on the relationship between Arab Christians and the nationalist movement in Palestine as the British Mandate unfolded throu…
"A fresh look at Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine under the British Mandate"
