description: Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control and led to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century. When they arrived the country lay in a Levantine nirvana; by the time they left it had become the arena for one of the century's major international conflicts. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Lawrence of Arabia, Winston Churchill, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, King Feisal, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion. One momentous consequence of these 30 years was that the Jewish population increased by a factor of ten.
language: English
title: One Palestine, Complete : Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
titlecomplete: One Palestine, Complete : Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
characters: David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin, Abdullah I of Jordan, Clement Attlee, David Lloyd George, Judah L. Magnes, Arthur Balfour, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Ernest Bevin, Chaim Weizmann, Mark Sykes, Bernard Montgomery, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Ronald Storrs, David Hacohen, David Eder
genres: 20th Century, History, British Literature, Politics, Religion, Israel, Islam, Nonfiction, Judaism, Jewish
ratings_count: 577
places: Mandatory Palestine, Palestine
publisher: Abacus