The Balfour Declaration
Subtitle: the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict
By: Jonathan Schneer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781400065325
Subjects: Balfour Declaration; Zionism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Zionism -- History -- 20th century; Arab-Israeli conflict; Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Turkey; Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Postlude as prelude; title: Palestine before World War I; title: "Ottomanism," "Arabism" and Sharif Hussein; title: First steps towards the Arab revolt; title: The next steps; title: The Hussein-McMahon correspondence; title: The Sykes-Picot agreement; title: The revolt begins; title: Prewar British Jews; title: Weizmann's first steps; title: The "assimilationists"; title: The road forks; title: Forging the British-Zionist connection; title: Defining the British-Arab connection; title: Managing the British-Zionist connection; title: Sokolow in France and Italy; title: Revelation of the Sykes Picot agreement; title: British Muslims, the Anglo-Ottoman society and the disillusioning of Marmaduke Pickthall; title: The curious venture of J.R. Pilling; title: Henry Morgenthau and the deceiving of Chaim Weizmann; title: The man who was "Greenmantle"; title: The Zaharoff gambit; title: The ascendency of Chaim Weizmann; title: Lawrence and the Arabs on the verge; title: The declaration at last; title: The declaration endangered; title: A drawing together of threads.