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Unexpected state : British politics and the creation of Israel /

Cutting through assumptions about Britain's support for a "national home for the Jewish people" in the creation of British Palestine, Carly Beckerman explores why and how elite political battles in London inadvertently laid the foundations for the establishment of the State of Israel....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beckerman, Carly (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Series:Indiana series in Middle East studies.
Subjects:
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Palestine.
Palestine > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1910-1936.
Israel > History.
Mandates > Palestine > History > 20th century.
Palestine > History > 1917-1948.
Jewish-Arab relations > History > 1917-1948.
Palestine > Politics and government > 1917-1948.
Table of Contents:
  • A Usable Past
  • The Balfour Zeitgeist, 1917-1928
  • The Passfield Reversal, 1929-1935
  • The MacDonald Betrayal, 1936-1939
  • From War to Withdrawal, 1940-1948.