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The crime of nationalism : Britain, Palestine, and nation-building on the fringe of empire

Title

The crime of nationalism : Britain, Palestine, and nation-building on the fringe of empire / Matthew Kraig Kelly.

Author

Kelly, Matthew Kraig

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Description

x, 250 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Summary

"The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born in the Great Revolt of 1936-39, a period of sustained Arab protest against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the key to understanding the Great Revolt lies in what he calls the crimino-national domain--the overlap between the criminological and the nationalist dimensions of British imperial discourse, and the primary terrain upon which the war of 1936-39 was fought. Kelly's analysis amounts to a new history of one of the major anticolonial insurgencies of the interwar period and a critical moment in the lead-up to Israel's founding. The Crime of Nationalism offers crucial lessons for the scholarly understanding of nationalism and insurgency more broadly."--Provided by publisher.

Alternative Title

Britain, Palestine, and nation-building on the fringe of empire

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-239) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part one. April-October 1936. British causal primacy and the origins of the Palestinian Great Revolt ; "A wave of crime": the criminalization of Palestinian nationalism, April-June 1936 ; "The policy is the criminal": war on the discursive frontier, July-August 1936 ; The British awakening to the military nature of the rebellion, August-October 1936 -- Part two. 1937-39. The Peel Commission reconsidered ; Towards a rebel parastate: the Arab rejection of partition and the effort to institutionalize the revolt, 1937-38 ; New policy, new crime: the abortion of the Balfour Declaration ; The end of the revolt, 1939 -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9780520291485
0520291484
9780520291492
0520291492

LCCN

2017016676

OCLC

ocn981118158
SCSB-14497222

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library