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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458747803321

Autore

Reynold Nick

Titolo

Britain's unfulfilled mandate for Palestine / / Nick Reynold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-8701-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

956.94/04

Soggetti

Mandates - Palestine - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Palestine History 1917-1948

Palestine Politics and government 1917-1948

Great Britain Foreign relations Palestine

Palestine Foreign relations Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; I: A Mandate Proposed; Introduction; Chapter One: From Whence the Mandate Came; Chapter Two: Getting Off to a Bad Start in Palestine; Chapter Three: The New Samuel Broom Sweeps Clean!; Chapter Four: The Palestinian Arabs Set Out to Torpedo the Mandate; Chapter Five: Herbert Samuel-Part Two; Chapter Six: Seeking a Jewish-Arab Entente 1924-1929; Chapter Seven: The Second and Third British High Commissioners for Palestine; Chapter Eight: Whither Britain's Commitment to Zionism?

Chapter Nine: The Battle between the Palestine Administration and the Jewish Agency (over Immigration, Land, and Jobs)II: The Mandate Unfulfilled; Chapter Ten: The Tables Begin to Turn; Chapter Eleven: Appeasement Rules the Waves; Chapter Twelve: Would There Be Life after the 1939 White Paper?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>The Middle East and its problems have become a constant source of news and public interest, but the current issues cannot be understood without a firm grasp on the historical context of the conflicts. </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Britain's



Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine</span><span> provides this context for one of the most significant issues in current global politics-Israel's relations with its neighbors-from the perspective a waning colonial power.</span></span>