Britain, Palestine, and empire : the mandate years - Miller, Rory, 1971- (Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010)
Flawed foundations: the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine mandate / James Renton -- The impact of league oversight on British policy in Palestine / Susan Pedersen --'Our Jerusalem': Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British mandate / Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- Views of Palestine in British art in wartime and peacetime, 1914-1948 / Antoine Capet --'Unholy statistics in the Holy Land': the fallacy of growth in the Palestinian rural economy during the 1920s and 1930s / Amos Nadan -- The Peel Commission and partition, 1936-1938 / Penny Sinanoglou -- Lawlessness was the law: British armed forces, the legal system, and brutality in Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-39 / Matthew Hughes --'An oriental Ireland': thinking about Palestine in terms of the Irish question during the mandatory era / Rory Miller -- Sir Alan Cunningham and the view from Government House, 1945-48 / Motti Golani.
Includes index.
Keywords: Mandates -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century; Politics and culture -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century; Imperialism -- History -- 20th century; Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.; Palestine -- Politics and government -- 1917-1948.; Palestine -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1948.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Palestine; Palestine -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain