"Revenants of a Fallen Empire reveals the various ways in which Colonial Germans attempted to cope with the loss of the German colonies after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. These Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) had invested substantial time and money in German imperialism…
''The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent leaders, trained in Ottoman mi…
The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent leaders, trained in Ottoman mili…
"The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent leaders, trained in Ottoman mil…
"Inventing Lebanon examines the history behind an idea: a new policy of 'Greater Lebanon'. It shows how in the 1920s and 1930s, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, with its own political and economic agenda, various groups of the local elite attempted to create w…
"Inventing Lebanon examines the history behind an idea: a new policy of 'Greater Lebanon'. It shows how in the 1920s and 1930s, under the powerful influence of the French Mandate, with its own political and economic agenda, various groups of the local elite attempted to create w…
"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…
Weaves a narrative of how British women abetted imperial projects in Palestine in several key historical periods ending with the British withdrawal and the creation of the Israeli state.
The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural histories of the Middle East in the decades between the end of the First World War and the late 1940s, when Britain and France abandoned their …
Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly become prominent in public affairs worldwide? The author uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'.
