Britain's pacification of Palestine : the British Army, the colonial state, and the Arab revolt, 1936-1939 / Matthew Hughes.
"In this complete military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Matthew Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion. The Army had a long tradition of pacification to draw upon to support operations, underpinned b...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Cambridge military histories.
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| Summary: | "In this complete military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Matthew Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion. The Army had a long tradition of pacification to draw upon to support operations, underpinned by the creation of an emergency colonial state in Palestine. After conquering Palestine in 1917, the British established a civil Government that ruled by proclamation and, without any local legislature, the colonial authorities codified in law norms of collective punishment that the Army used in 1936. The Army used 'lawfare', emergency legislation enabled by the colonial state, to grind out the rebellion. Soldiers with support from the RAF launched kinetic operations to search and destroy rebel bands, alongside which the villagers on whom the rebels depended were subjected to curfews, fines, detention, punitive searches, demolitions and reprisals. Rebels were disorganised and unable to withstand the power of such pacification measures"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 478 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316216026 1316216020 9781108752428 110875242X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 14, 2019) |