Britain''s Pacification of Palestine - The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939

The British Army's devastating effectiveness against colonial rebellion is exposed in this military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations; 1. Framing the Arab Revolt; 2. The emergency state in mandate Palestine; 3. Rebels and revolt; 4. From insurgency to banditry; 5. The regiments arrive; 6. Screwing down the population; 7. Intelligence and collaboration; 8. Dirty wars and extra-judicial violence; Afterword: policy, violence, and the Arab revolt; Appendix A: order-of-battle; Appendix B: casualties; Appendix C: women and violence; Appendix D: sartorial wars; Appendix E: dramatis personae and the Arab Higher Committee; Appendix F: currency and wages; Appendix G: the escapes of al-Qawuqji and Hajj Amin; Bibliography; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Matthew Hughes is Chair in Military History at Brunel University.

Zusammenfassung

More than just a military history of Britain's suppression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, this is a dissection of how the British empire worked to supress dissent and how subject peoples resisted colonial rule.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Matthew Hughes, Matthew (Brunel University) Hughes
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107103207
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10320-7
• Seiten: 452
• Serien: Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories (
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; European History, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Middle Eastern history, Palestine