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1138800589 (hardback : alk. paper)

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Introduction / Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan

The mandates and/as decolonization: preliminary thoughts / Cyrus Schayegh

Part I. The mandate states in the world: international institutions, transnational linkages

Introduction to Part I / Andrew Arsan

Globalisation, imperialism, and the perspectives of foreign soldiers in the Middle East during World War I / Leila Fawaz

Between communal survival and national aspiration: Armenian genocide refugees, the League of Nations and the practices of interwar humanitarianism / Keith David Watenpaugh

Compassion and connections: feeding Beirut and assembling mandate rule in 1919 / Simon Jackson

Exporting obligations: evolutionism, normalization, and mandatory anti-alcoholism from Africa to the Middle East (1918-1939) / Philippe Bourmaud

Education for real life: pragmatist pedagogies and American interwar expansion in Iraq / Sarah Pursley

The mandate system as a style of reasoning: international jurisdiction and the parcelling of imperial sovereignty in petitions from Palestine / Natasha Wheatley

Citizens from afar: Palestinian migrants and the new world order, 1920-1930 / Nadim Bawalsa

French mandate counterinsurgency and the repression of the great Syrian revolt / Michael Provence

Part II. Mandate states: governance, discourses, interests

Introduction to Part II / Cyrus Schayegh

Colonial gender discourse in Iraq: constructing non-citizens / Noga Efrati

Mapping the cadastre, producing the fellah: technologies and discourses of rule in French mandate Syria and Lebanon / Elizabeth Williams

Suspect service: prostitution and the public in the mandate Mediterranean / Camila Pastor

The successful failure of reform: police legitimacy in British Palestine / John L. Knight

The social origins of mandatory rule in trans-Jordan / Tariq Tell

Colonial cartography and the making of palestine, lebanon, and syria / Asher Kaufman

Rashid rida & the 1920 syrian arab constitution: how the french mandate undermined Islamic liberalism / Elizabeth F. Thompson

The nation as moral community: language and religion in the 1919 King-Crane Commission / Lori Allen

Part III. Mandate state-society interactions and societal action: politics, culture, economy

Introduction to Part III / Cyrus Schayegh

Development and disappointment: Arab approaches to economic modernisation in mandate Palestine / Jacob Norris

Throwing trans-Jordan into Palestine: electrification and state formation, 1921-1954 / Fredrik Meiton

Abu Jilda, anti-imperial anti-hero: banditry and popular rebellion in Palestine / Alex Winder

A massacre without precedent: pedagogical constituencies and communities of knowledge in mandate Lebanon / Nadya Sbaiti

Hebrew under English rule: the language politics of mandate Palestine / Liora R. Halperin

Divinely imprinting prints: or, how pictures became influential persons in mandate Lebanon / Kirsten Scheid

Jews in an imperial pocket: northern Iraqi Jews and the British mandate / Orit Bashkin

Sanctity across the border: pilgrimage routes and state control in mandate Lebanon and Palestine / Toufoul Abou-Hodeib

Rebels without borders: southern syria and Palestine, 1919-1936 / Laila Parsons

Was there a mandates period? Some concluding thoughts / James L. Gelvin.

1900 > 1999

Mandates > Middle East > History > 20th century.

Middle East > Politics and government > 1914-1945.

Great Britain > Foreign relations > Middle East.

Middle East > Foreign relations > Great Britain.

France > Foreign relations > Middle East.

Middle East > Foreign relations > France.