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Cambridge Military Histories Ser.: Britain's Pacification of Palestine : The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 by Matthew Hughes (2019, Hardcover)
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In this complete military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Matthew Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion. Soldiers with support from the RAF launched kinetic operations to search and destroy rebel bands, alongside which the villagers on whom the rebels depended were subjected to curfews, fines, detention, punitive searches, demolitions and reprisals.
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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107103207
ISBN-139781107103207
eBay Product ID (ePID)21038588535
Product Key Features
Number of Pages452 Pages
Publication NameBritain's Pacification of Palestine : The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
SubjectRevolutionary, Military / General, Imperialism, International Relations / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
AuthorMatthew Hughes
SeriesCambridge Military Histories Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight32.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-039214
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Matthew Hughes's ground-breaking study of Britain's repression of the Arab rebellion in Palestine in the 1930s is an outstanding military history of British colonial pacification methods. It details how Britain's colonial emergency state successfully integrated draconian legal measures with the British Army's long traditions of counter-insurgency to pacify Palestine and crush a rebellion that, as Hughes proves, lacked the internal strength to counter the power of the British Empire." Yigal Sheffy, author of British Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918, "Admirably suited for the specialist as well as the general reader this book provides an exhaustively researched account of the British Army's pacification of Palestine, 1936-1939. Based on Hebrew, Arabic, French and British sources, Hughes does not ignore the suffering of ordinary Palestinians as the British Army sought to suppress what he views as rural peasant-based revolt. Highly recommended." David R Woodward, author of The Holy Land: World War 1 in the Middle East, "While Europe marched to war in the late 1930s, a formative episode in the struggle for self-determination played out in Palestine. Drawing on a formidable array of sources, Matthew Hughes dissects the Arab Revolt with a keen eye for the broader political, social and legal contexts which shaped strategy. This book is a major addition to our knowledge of the British Army, colonial violence, and the modern Middle East." Huw Bennett, author of Fighting the Mau Mau
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal956.94/04
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations; 1. Framing the Arab Revolt; 2. The emergency state in mandate Palestine; 3. Rebels and revolt; 4. From insurgency to banditry; 5. The regiments arrive; 6. Screwing down the population; 7. Intelligence and collaboration; 8. Dirty wars and extra-judicial violence; Afterword: policy, violence, and the Arab revolt; Appendix A: order-of-battle; Appendix B: casualties; Appendix C: women and violence; Appendix D: sartorial wars; Appendix E: dramatis personae and the Arab Higher Committee; Appendix F: currency and wages; Appendix G: the escapes of al-Qawuqji and Hajj Amin; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisMore than just a military history of Britain's suppression of the Arab revolt in Palestine, this is a dissection of how the British empire worked to supress dissent and how subject peoples resisted colonial rule., In this complete military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Matthew Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion. The Army had a long tradition of pacification to draw upon to support operations, underpinned by the creation of an emergency colonial state in Palestine. After conquering Palestine in 1917, the British established a civil Government that ruled by proclamation and, without any local legislature, the colonial authorities codified in law norms of collective punishment that the Army used in 1936. The Army used 'lawfare', emergency legislation enabled by the colonial state, to grind out the rebellion. Soldiers with support from the RAF launched kinetic operations to search and destroy rebel bands, alongside which the villagers on whom the rebels depended were subjected to curfews, fines, detention, punitive searches, demolitions and reprisals. Rebels were disorganised and unable to withstand the power of such pacification measures.
LC Classification NumberDS126.H82 2019
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