The Routledge handbook of the history of the Middle East mandates : edited by Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan.

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Book
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English
Εdition
1st ed.
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New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2015.
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1 online resource (463 p.)

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The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural histories of the Middle East in the decades between the end of the First World War and the late 1940s, when Britain and France abandoned their Mandates. It also situates the history of the Mandates in their wider imperial, international and global contexts, incorporating them into broader narratives of the interwar decades. In 27 thematically organised chapters, the volume looks at various aspects of the Mandates such as:The impact of the First World War and t
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Contents
  • ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Figures, maps, and tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Foreword: Studying the Mandates: past, present, future""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I The Mandate states in the world: international institutions, transnational linkages""; ""Introduction to Part I""; ""1 Globalization, imperialism, and the perspectives of foreign soldiers in the Middle East during the First World War""
  • ""2 Between communal survival and national aspiration: Armenian Genocide refugees, the League of Nations and the practices of interwar humanitarianism""""3 Compassion and connections: feeding Beirut and assembling Mandate rule in 1919""; ""4 Exporting obligations: evolutionism, normalization, and mandatory anti-alcoholism from Africa to the Middle East (1918â€?1939)""; ""5 “Education for real lifeâ€?: pragmatist pedagogies and American interwar expansion in Iraq""
  • ""6 The Mandate system as a style of reasoning: international jurisdiction and the parceling of imperial sovereignty in petitions from Palestine""""7 Citizens from afar: Palestinian migrants and the new world order, 1920â€?1930""; ""8 French Mandate counterinsurgency and the repression of the Great Syrian Revolt""; ""PART II Mandate states: governance, discourses, interests""; ""Introduction to Part II""; ""9 Colonial gender discourse in Iraq: constructing noncitizens""; ""10 Mapping the cadastre, producing the fellah : technologies and discourses of rule in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon""
  • ""11 Suspect service: prostitution and the public in the Mandate Mediterranean""""12 The successful failure of reform: police legitimacy in British Palestine""; ""13 The social origins of mandatory rule in Transjordan""; ""14 Colonial cartography and the making of Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria""; ""15 Rashid Rida and the 1920 Syrian-Arab constitution: how the French Mandate undermined Islamic liberalism""; ""16 The nation as moral community: language and religion in the 1919 King-Crane Commission""; ""PART III Mandate state-society interactions and societal action:politics, culture, economy""
  • ""Introduction to Part III""""17 Development and disappointment: Arab approaches to economic modernization in Mandate Palestine""; ""18 Throwing Transjordan into Palestine: electrification and state formation, 1921â€?1954""; ""19 Abu Jilda, anti-imperial antihero: banditry and popular rebellion in Palestine""; ""20 “A massacre without precedentâ€?: pedagogical constituencies and communities of knowledge in Mandate Lebanon""; ""21 Hebrew under English rule: the language politics of Mandate Palestine""
  • ""22 Divinely imprinting prints, or, how pictures became influential persons in Mandate Lebanon""
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Handbook of the history of the Middle East mandates
ISBN
  • 1-315-71312-8
  • 1-317-49705-8
OCLC
  • 911000958
  • 958110055
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781315713120
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