British Mandate in Palestine

Name: British Mandate in Palestine
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The British Mandate in PalestineA Centenary Volume, 19202020\nAuthor(s): Michael J Cohen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367133436, 978-0367133436\nSynopsis\nThe British Mandate over Palestine began just 100 years ago, in July 1920, when Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, took his seat at Government House, Jerusalem. The chapters here analyse a wide cross-section of the conflicting issues --social, political and strategical--that attended British colonial rule over the country, from 1920 to 1948. \n\nThis anthology contains contributions by several of the most respected Israeli scholars in the field Arab, Druze and Jewish. It is divided into three sections, covering the differing perspectives of the main actors in the Palestine Triangle: the British, the Arabs and the Zionists. The concluding chapter identifies a pattern of seven counterproductive negotiating behaviours that e.