The Crime of Nationalism. Matthew Kraig Kelly

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Kelly, Matthew Kraig, author.

      Title: The crime of nationalism : Britain, Palestine, and nation-building on

      the fringe of empire / Matthew Kraig Kelly.

      Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] |

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017016676 (print) | LCCN 2017019351 (ebook) |

      ISBN 9780520965256 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520291485 (cloth : alk. paper) |

      ISBN 9780520291492 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Palestine—History—Arab rebellion, 1936-1939. | Palestine—

      History—1917-1948. | Great Britain—Foreign relations—Palestine. |

      Palestine—Foreign relations—Great Britain. | Palestine—Politics and

      government—1917-1948. | Violence—Palestine—History.

      Classification: LCC DS126 (ebook) | LCC DS126 .K39 2017 (print) |

      DDC 956.94/04—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017016676

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       For my parents, Kraig and Dolores Kelly In memory of David Batza

      CONTENTS

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       PART ONE

       APRIL–OCTOBER 1936

      1 • British Causal Primacy and the Origins of the Palestinian Great Revolt

      2 • “A Wave of Crime”: The Criminalization of Palestinian Nationalism, April–June 1936

      3 • “The Policy Is the Criminal”: War on the Discursive Frontier, July–August 1936

      4 • The British Awakening to the Military Nature of the Rebellion, August–October 1936

       PART TWO

       1937–39

      5 • The Peel Commission Reconsidered

      6 • Towards a Rebel Parastate: The Arab Rejection of Partition and the Effort to Institutionalize the Revolt, 1937–38

      7 • New Policy, New Crime: The Abortion of the Balfour Declaration

      8 • The End of the Revolt, 1939

       Conclusion

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I cannot put into words my gratitude for the many people who made this book possible, but I will try. Above all, I want to thank my family. My wife, Tammie, traveled with me to England and to Israel during the research phase of the book. To help support me, she waited tables in London, and taught dance workshops all over England, Israel, the Netherlands and France. And she did it all without complaint. My parents, Kraig and Dolores Kelly, were unfailing in their support, both moral and material, through my years in graduate school and during the research and writing phases of the book. My uncle and dear friend, the great Dr. Gary Lynch, carefully read and commented on various drafts of the manuscript. He also saved this project from the scrapheap of books-to-be by stepping in with financial support on more than one occasion. More generally, “UG” has been a source of intellectual and spiritual inspiration to me for many years. I have to thank a number of friends who happen also to be first-rate scholars and therefore readers. These include my lifelong friend Tommy Givens, and two of my most cherished confidantes, Fredrik Meiton and Adam Talib. Tom offered invaluable advice early in the writing process, and has been a source of personal strength for as long as I have known him. Fred and Adam went well beyond the call of duty in closely vetting the manuscript and offering me indispensable historical, linguistic, and stylistic advice. The book would never have seen the light of day without the support of James Gelvin. I am profoundly thankful for his years of institutional, intellectual, and moral support. It is fitting that he gave me the book title. In addition to Gelvin’s, I am fortunate to have received the learned input of the other three members of my dissertation committee, David N. Myers, Gabriel Piterberg, and Michael Mann. As important, my good friends Gaby Goldstein and Tony Peterson, as well as Nehad Khader, Nadia Naqib, Lexi Newman, Maia Tabet, and Natasha Wheatley were all kind enough to offer many thoughtful comments on early drafts of the manuscript. Other fine scholars who took the time to correspond with me include Hillel Cohen, Kate Halls (a tremendous help), Joshua СКАЧАТЬ