TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Rory TI - Britain, Palestine, and empire: the mandate years SN - 9780754668084 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - DS126 .M54 2010 U1 - 956.94/04 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - Mandates KW - Palestine KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Politics and culture KW - Imperialism KW - 1917-1948 KW - Politics and government KW - Economic conditions KW - Great Britain KW - Foreign relations N1 - Includes index; Flawed foundations: the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine mandate / James Renton -- The impact of league oversight on British policy in Palestine / Susan Pedersen --'Our Jerusalem': Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British mandate / Heleen Murre-van den Berg -- Views of Palestine in British art in wartime and peacetime, 1914-1948 / Antoine Capet --'Unholy statistics in the Holy Land': the fallacy of growth in the Palestinian rural economy during the 1920s and 1930s / Amos Nadan -- The Peel Commission and partition, 1936-1938 / Penny Sinanoglou -- Lawlessness was the law: British armed forces, the legal system, and brutality in Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-39 / Matthew Hughes --'An oriental Ireland': thinking about Palestine in terms of the Irish question during the mandatory era / Rory Miller -- Sir Alan Cunningham and the view from Government House, 1945-48 / Motti Golani ER -