The Crime of Nationalism (eBook)

Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire

Matthew Kraig Kelly (Autor)

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2017
264 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96525-6 (ISBN)

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The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born during the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a period of Arab rebellion against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the key to understanding the Great Revolt lies in what he calls the “crimino-national” domain—the overlap between the criminological and the nationalist dimensions of British imperial discourse, and the primary terrain upon which the war of 1936–39 was fought. Kelly’s analysis amounts to a new history of one of the major anticolonial insurgencies of the interwar period and a critical moment in the lead-up to Israel’s founding. The Crime of Nationalism offers crucial lessons for the scholarly understanding of nationalism and insurgency more broadly.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

PAT ONE APRIL-OCTOBER 1936
1 • British Causal Primacy and the Origins of the Palestinian Great Revolt
2 • “A Wave of Crime”: The Criminalization of Palestinian Nationalism, April–June 1936
3 • “The Policy Is the Criminal”: War on the Discursive Frontier, July–August 1936
4 • The British Awakening to the Military Nature of the Rebellion, August–October 1936

PART TWO 1937–39
5 • The Peel Commission Reconsidered
6 • Towards a Rebel Parastate: The Arab Rejection of Partition and the Effort to Institutionalize the Revolt, 1937–38
7 • New Policy, New Crime: The Abortion of the Balfour Declaration
8 • The End of the Revolt, 1939

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1930s • 1930s palestine • 20th century • academic • Analysis • anticolonial • Arab • british rule • Colonization • colony • Crime • Criminal Law • discourse • Early 20th Century • great revolt • Imperial • Insurgency • insurgents • Interwar • Israel • Law and Order • Legal issues • Middle East • Middle Eastern History • modern world • Nationalism • National Movement • Palestine • Palestinian history • post colonial • Rebellion • scholarly • Social Studies • wartime • World History
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96525-6 / 0520965256
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96525-6 / 9780520965256