Research Catalog

Title

Britain's moment in Palestine : retrospect and perspectives, 1917-48 / Michael J. Cohen.

Author

Cohen, Michael Joseph, 1940-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Details

Description

xvi, 518 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This book provides a comprehensive analysis of British policies in Palestine during the 28 years for which it held the League of Nations Mandate. It examines how and why they conquered Palestine, their relations with Arabs and Jews and why they left in a hurry in 1948"--
• "Analysing why, and how, the British took on the Palestine Mandate; this book explores how their interests and policies changed during its course, and why they left. Issuing the Balfour Declaration in 1917 for military and strategic reasons, the first decade of the Mandate saw an influx of Jewish capital mobilized by the Zionists which enabled the British to fund not only the administration of Palestine, but also her imperial projects there. In the mid-1930s, as the clouds of World War Two gathered, Britain's commitment to Zionism was superseded by the need to secure her strategic assets in the Middle East and consequently her policy turned to favour the Arabs. The post war period saw Britain abandon any attempts to impose a settlement in Palestine that would be acceptable to the Arab States and the government referred Palestine to the United Nations, without recommendations, leaving the antagonists to settle their conflict on the battlefield. Based on archival sources and the most up-to-date scholarly research, this comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone with an interest in Israel, and the Middle East in general"--

Series Statement

Israeli history, politics and society ; 55

Uniform Title

Cass series--Israeli history, politics, and society ; 55.

Subject

• 1917-1948
• 1900-talet
• HISTORY > Middle East > Israel
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies
• History
• Diplomatic relations
• Politics and government
• Great Britain
• Palestine
• Mandate
• Government
• Politics
• Politiska förhållanden > historia
• Diplomatiska förbindelser > historia
• Palestine > History > 1917-1948
• Palestine > Politics and government > 1917-1948
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > Palestine
• Palestine > Foreign relations > Great Britain
• Middle East > Palestine
• Palästina
• Großbritannien
• Eretz Israel > History > 1917-1948, British Mandate period
• Eretz Israel > Politics and government > 1917-1948, British Mandate period
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > Israel
• Israel > Foreign relations > Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-499) and index.

Contents

1. Britain and Zionism: The domestic context -- 2. World War One: Britain assumes the Palestine mandate -- 3. Palestine and the Near East, 1919--23 -- 4. The military administration, 1918--20 -- 5. Colonial Palestine -- 6. Redefining policy in Palestine -- 7. 1923: The Balfour Declaration challenged -- 8. Paying for Empire in the 1920s -- 9. The Yishuv economy in the 1920s -- 10. The unravelling of the mandate, 1929--31 -- 11. The Arab rebellion, I: April--October 1936 -- 12. The Arab rebellion, II: July 1937--April 1939 -- 13. Appeasement in the Middle East, 1937--39 -- 14. World War Two: The Jews -- 15. The Allies, the Zionists and the Holocaust -- 16. World War Two: The British and the Arabs -- 17. The Arabs and Nazi Germany -- 18. The Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin, 1941--45 -- 19. Why the British left -- 20. The British lose control in Palestine.

ISBN

• 9780415729857
• 0415729858
• 9781138193888
• 1138193887
• 9781315850757 (canceled/invalid)
• 1315850753 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2013030118
• 40023466575

OCLC

• ocn852218760
• 852218760
• SCSB-14497284

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library