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

"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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kelly, Matthew Kraig (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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.