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The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born during the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a period of Arab rebellion 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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 264
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
03 October 2017
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520291485
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
"Kelly is to be congratulated for a scholarly study that is sure to provoke further debate about the Arab revolt of the 1930s, a pivotal insurgency that demands more scrutiny and about which too little has been written."
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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PAT 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
Introduction
PAT 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