Michael J Cohen

Palestine to Israel

From Mandate to Independence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780714633121
• ISBN-10: 0714633127
• Artikelnr.: 20990765

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Cohen Professor of History, Bar Ilan University

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Churchill and the Balfour Declaration: The Interpretation,
1920-1922; Chapter 2 Churchill and Palestine: At the Exchequer, 1928;
Chapter 3 Direction of Policy in Palestine, 1936-1945; Chapter 4 Origins of
the Arab States' Involvement in Palestine; Chapter 5 British Strategy and
the Palestine Question 1936-1939; Chapter 6 Appeasement in the Middle East:
The British White Paper on Palestine, May 1939; Chapter 7 A Note on the
Mansion House Speech, May 1941; Chapter 8 American Influence on British
Policy in the Middle East during World War Two: First Attempts at
Coordinating Allied Policy on Palestine; Chapter 9 The Moyne Assassination,
November 1944: A Political Analysis; Chapter 10 The Genesis of the
Anglo-American Committee on Palestine, November 1945: A Case Study in the
Assertion of American Hegemony; Chapter 11 Truman and Palestine, 1945-1948:
Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy; Chapter 12 Why Britain Left: the End
of the Mandate;