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Crime of Nationalism Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire

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ISBN-10: 0520291492

ISBN-13: 9780520291492

Edition: 2017

Authors: Matthew Kraig Kelly

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/3/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Matthew Kraig Kelly is a historian of the modern Middle East. He has served as a visiting professor at Occidental College and the University of California, Los Angeles, and his work has been published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Middle East Critique, and other academic journals.