A study of Palestine in the early twentieth century that takes a step back from the intricacies of the Arab-Zionist conflict focusing instead on the country's position within the broader history of empire and anti-colonial resistance.
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"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…
"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…
A study of Palestine in the early twentieth century that takes a step back from the intricacies of the Arab-Zionist conflict focusing instead on the country's position within the broader history of empire and anti-colonial resistance.
Packed with entertaining and disturbing stories and with new accounts of the disastrous British military takeovers of Java and Vietnam in 1945, this title shows how the mishandling of the latter led directly to the Vietnam War.
"The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain's ally Japan had vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to British interests in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British po…
"The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain's ally Japan had vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to British interests in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British po…
"The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain's ally Japan had vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to British interests in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British po…
"Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of…