The crime of nationalism
Subtitle: Britain, Palestine, and nation-building on the fringe of empire
By: Matthew Kraig Kelly
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780520291485; 9780520291492
Subjects: Politics and government; Violence; Foreign relations; History
Description: "The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born in the Great Revolt of 1936-39, a period of sustained Arab protest against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the key to understanding the Great Revolt lies in what he calls the crimino-national domain--the overlap between the criminological and the nationalist dimensions of British imperial discourse, and the primary terrain upon which the war of 1936-39 was fought. Kelly's analysis amounts to a new history of one of the major anticolonial insurgencies of the interwar period and a critical moment in the lead-up to Israel's founding. The Crime of Nationalism offers crucial lessons for the scholarly understanding of nationalism and insurgency more broadly"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: British causal primacy and the origins of the Palestinian Great Revolt; title: "A wave of crime" : the criminalization of Palestinian nationalism, April-June 1936; title: "The policy is the criminal" : war on the discursive frontier, July-August 1936; title: The British awakening to the military nature of the rebellion, August-October 1936; title: The peel commission reconsidered; title: Towards a rebel parastate : the Arab rejection of partition and the effort to institutionalize the revolt, 1937-38; title: New policy, new crime : the abortion of the Balfour Declaration; title: The end of the revolt, 1939.