Palestine to Israel : From Mandate to Independence

Name: Palestine to Israel:From Mandate to Independence
ISBN: 9780203061619

doi:10.4324/9780203061619

ABSTRACT

This collection of articles analyzes the underlying motivation, strategy and interests which lay behind "Great Power" (British and post-World War II American) involvement in Palestine and the Middle East, from 1917 to 1948.

Palestine to Israel

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Churchill and the Balfour Declaration: The Interpretation, 1920–1922

chapter |20 pages

Churchill and Palestine: At the Exchequer, 1928

chapter |29 pages

Direction of Policy in Palestine, 1936–1945

chapter |10 pages

Origins of the Arab States' Involvement in Palestine

chapter |23 pages

British Strategy and the Palestine Question 1936–1939

chapter |28 pages

Appeasement in the Middle East: The British White Paper on Palestine, May 1939

chapter |10 pages

A Note on the Mansion House Speech, May 1941

chapter |19 pages

American Influence on British Policy in the Middle East during World War Two: First Attempts at Coordinating Allied Policy on Palestine

chapter |17 pages

The Moyne Assassination, November 1944: A Political Analysis

chapter |23 pages

The Genesis of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine, November 1945: A Case Study in the Assertion of American Hegemony

chapter |22 pages

Truman and Palestine, 1945–1948: Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy

chapter |22 pages

Why Britain Left: the End of the Mandate