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Ghandour Zeina B. <1966-, > |
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Titolo |
A discourse on domination in mandate Palestine : imperialism, property and insurgency / / Zeina B. Ghandour |
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Abingdom [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-00963-1 |
1-282-28344-8 |
9786612283444 |
0-203-88084-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mandates - Palestine |
Colonial administrators - Great Britain - Attitudes - History |
British - Palestine - Attitudes |
Public opinion - Great Britain |
Imperialism - Government policy - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
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Palestine History 1917-1948 |
Palestine Foreign public opinion, British |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: This is not ethnography; Chapter 1 'Through their chiefs': The metanarrative of imperial rule in Africa and the East; Chapter 2 'Unmarked and undivided': Language, law and myth - how to transform aboriginal landscape; Chapter 3 'Between the bazaar and the bungalow': A rebellion without rebels; Chapter 4 'Raising of the religious cry': How to make Muslims, moderates and extremists out of the eĢlite; Chapter 5 The last word: The unusual suspects; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and |
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cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians. The validity of cultural representations as pronounced within official correspondence and colonial laws and regulations, as well as within the private papers of colonial officials, survives more or less intact. There are features of colonialism additional to economic and political power, which are glaring yet ha |
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