This collection represents the first large scale attempt to discuss the Middle Eastern mandates as a totality. It compares the application and effects of this very specific form of late colonialism from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, ar…
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 histori…
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 histori…
1. Rethinking colinial violence 2. The architecture of the colonial state 3. Political rationalities of violence 4. Time, science and space 5. Rebel movements and the great revolt 6. Urban planning, hygiene and counter-insurgency 7. Nomad space: securing the desert.
"This theoretically rigorous study explores how French colonial violence during the Mandate laid the foundations for the modern state in Syria"-- "Occupying Syria under the French Mandate Insurgency, Space, and State Formation What role does military force play during a colonia…
"Occupying Syria under the French Mandate Insurgency, Space, and State Formation What role does military force play during a colonial occupation? The answer seems obvious: coercion crushes local resistance, quashes political dissent, and consolidates the dominance of the occupyi…
This theoretically rigorous study explores how French colonial violence during the Mandate laid the foundations for the modern state in Syria" Occupying Syria under the French Mandate Insurgency, Space, and State Formation What role does military force play during a colonial oc…
"This theoretically rigorous study explores how French colonial violence during the Mandate laid the foundations for the modern state in Syria"-- "Occupying Syria under the French Mandate Insurgency, Space, and State Formation What role does military force play during a colonia…