Research Catalog

Title

Partitioning Palestine : British policymaking at the end of empire / Penny Sinanoglou.

Author

Sinanoglou, Penny

Publication

• Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 251 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Partitioning Palestine is the first history of the ideological and political forces that led to the idea of partition--that is, a division of territory and sovereignty - in British mandate Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. Inverting the spate of narratives that focus on how the idea contributed to, or hindered, the development of future Israeli and Palestinian states, Penny Sinanoglou asks instead what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact.. Taking a broad view not only of local and regional factors, but also of Palestine's place in the British empire and its status as a League of Nations mandate, Sinanoglou deftly recasts the story of partition in Palestine as a struggle for imperial control. After all, British partition plans imagined space both for a Zionist state indebted to Britain and for continued British control over key geostrategic assets, and depended in large part on the forced movement of Arab populations. With her detailed look at the development of the idea of partition from its origins in the 1920s, Sinanoglou makes a bold contribution to our understanding of the complex interplay between internationalism and imperialism at the end of the British empire and reveals the legacies of British partitionist thinking in the broader history of decolonization in the modern Middle East.

Subject

• 1917-1948
• Palestine > History > 1917-1948
• Palestine > History > Proposed partition, 1937
• Middle East > Palestine

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Partition's pathways: imperial and international contexts -- Before Peel: territorial solutions to the Palestine problem, 1929-1936 -- The Peel Commission in Palestine, 1936-1937 -- Negotiating partition, 1936-1937 -- The demise of partition, 1937-1939 -- Conclusion: partition redux, 1939-1948 -- Appendix I: mandate for Palestine -- Appendix II: Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations.

Call Number

JFE 20-5350

ISBN

• 9780226665788
• 022666578X
• 9780226665818 (canceled/invalid)
• 022666581X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019016005

OCLC

1089864664

Author

Sinanoglou, Penny, author.

Title

Partitioning Palestine : British policymaking at the end of empire / Penny Sinanoglou.

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1917-1948

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780226665818

Research Call Number

JFE 20-5350