Struggle for Palestine / J. C. Hurewitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurewitz, J. C., 1914-2008, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--History--1929-1948.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : W. W. Norton, [2018]

Summary:

Studies Arab and Jewish politics in Palestine since 1936 as they converged with world power struggles.

Contents:

Preface

Part I: The shape of the Palestine problem in 1936

1. The origins of the mandate and its operation

2. Demographic, economic, and social components

3. The political structure of the Yishuv

4. The political structure of the Arab community

Part II: Developments during the period of Axis ascendancy, 1936-1942

5. Arab revolt and partition proposal

6. Retreat from partition

7. The 1939 white paper

8. Arab political stagnation

9. The Jewish war effort

10. The Zionist struggle against the white paper

11. Arab collaboration abroad

12. The statists and their opponents

Part II: Results of the sharpening East-West rivalry after 1942

13. Changing big-power alignment

14. Arab political revival

15. The Biltmore controversy

16. The scope of the problem at the war's close

17. Palestine as an Anglo-American problem

18. The Anglo-American committee of inquiry

19. Provincial autonomy

20. The London conference

21. Britain's legacy to the United States

22. United Nations inquiry

23. Partition

Epilogue: The Palestine war; armistice aftermath; conclusion.

Notes:

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