The Routledge handbook of the history of the Middle East mandates /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schayegh, Cyrus (Author, Editor), Arsan, Andrew (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Routledge history handbooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan
  • The mandates and/as decolonization: preliminary thoughts / Cyrus Schayegh
  • Part I. The mandate states in the world: international institutions, transnational linkages
  • Introduction to Part I / Andrew Arsan
  • Globalisation, imperialism, and the perspectives of foreign soldiers in the Middle East during World War I / Leila Fawaz
  • Between communal survival and national aspiration: Armenian genocide refugees, the League of Nations and the practices of interwar humanitarianism / Keith David Watenpaugh
  • Compassion and connections: feeding Beirut and assembling mandate rule in 1919 / Simon Jackson
  • Exporting obligations: evolutionism, normalization, and mandatory anti-alcoholism from Africa to the Middle East (1918-1939) / Philippe Bourmaud
  • Education for real life: pragmatist pedagogies and American interwar expansion in Iraq / Sarah Pursley
  • The mandate system as a style of reasoning: international jurisdiction and the parcelling of imperial sovereignty in petitions from Palestine / Natasha Wheatley
  • Citizens from afar: Palestinian migrants and the new world order, 1920-1930 / Nadim Bawalsa
  • French mandate counterinsurgency and the repression of the great Syrian revolt / Michael Provence
  • Part II. Mandate states: governance, discourses, interests
  • Introduction to Part II / Cyrus Schayegh
  • Colonial gender discourse in Iraq: constructing non-citizens / Noga Efrati
  • Mapping the cadastre, producing the fellah: technologies and discourses of rule in French mandate Syria and Lebanon / Elizabeth Williams
  • Suspect service: prostitution and the public in the mandate Mediterranean / Camila Pastor
  • The successful failure of reform: police legitimacy in British Palestine / John L. Knight
  • The social origins of mandatory rule in trans-Jordan / Tariq Tell
  • Colonial cartography and the making of palestine, lebanon, and syria / Asher Kaufman
  • Rashid rida & the 1920 syrian arab constitution: how the french mandate undermined Islamic liberalism / Elizabeth F. Thompson
  • The nation as moral community: language and religion in the 1919 King-Crane Commission / Lori Allen
  • Part III. Mandate state-society interactions and societal action: politics, culture, economy
  • Introduction to Part III / Cyrus Schayegh
  • Development and disappointment: Arab approaches to economic modernisation in mandate Palestine / Jacob Norris
  • Throwing trans-Jordan into Palestine: electrification and state formation, 1921-1954 / Fredrik Meiton
  • Abu Jilda, anti-imperial anti-hero: banditry and popular rebellion in Palestine / Alex Winder
  • A massacre without precedent: pedagogical constituencies and communities of knowledge in mandate Lebanon / Nadya Sbaiti
  • Hebrew under English rule: the language politics of mandate Palestine / Liora R. Halperin
  • Divinely imprinting prints: or, how pictures became influential persons in mandate Lebanon / Kirsten Scheid
  • Jews in an imperial pocket: northern Iraqi Jews and the British mandate / Orit Bashkin
  • Sanctity across the border: pilgrimage routes and state control in mandate Lebanon and Palestine / Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
  • Rebels without borders: southern syria and Palestine, 1919-1936 / Laila Parsons
  • Was there a mandates period? Some concluding thoughts / James L. Gelvin.