Title: A history of Palestine from 135 A.D. to modern times.
Authors: Parkes, James, 1896-1981.
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press,
Year: 1949
Subjects: Palestine History
Contents: The early history of Palestine -- Palestine from 70 to 135 A.D. -- Palestine under Roman and Byzantine rule -- The Arab conquest and the Islamisation of the population -- The Western counter-offensive: the Crusades -- Palestine under the Mamluks -- Palestine under the Turks, 1517-1798 -- Palestine: the promised land of Judaism -- Palestine: the holy land of Christianity -- Jerusalem: a holy city of Islam -- Political history from the Napoleonic to the First World War -- Christians and Christian interests between 1815 and 1914 -- The local population and the rebirth of Arab nationalism -- The Jews and the beginnings of Zionist settlement -- The First World War and its effects in Palestine -- The British administration, 1918-1930 -- The breakdown of the mandate 1929-1939 -- The collapse and the abandonment of the British administration.