Matthew Hughes

Britain's Pacification of Palestine (eBook, PDF)

The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108752428
• Artikelnr.: 57077152

Autorenporträt

Matthew Hughes writes fantasy and space opera, often in a Jack Vance mode. Booklist has called him Vance's "heir apparent." His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, F&SF, Postscripts, Lightspeed, and Interzone, and invitation-only anthologies including Songs of the Dying Earth, Rogues, Old Mars, Old Venus, The Book of Swords, and The Book of Magic, all edited by George R.R. Martin and/or Gardner Dozois. He has won the Arthur Ellis Award, and has been shortlisted for the Aurora, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, Endeavour (twice), A.E. Van Vogt, and Derringer Awards. He spent more than thirty years as one of Canada's leading speechwriters for political leaders and corporate executives. Since 2007, he has been traveling the world as an itinerant housesitter, has lived in twelve countries, and has no fixed address.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
1. Framing the Arab Revolt
2. The emergency state in mandate Palestine
3. Rebels and revolt
4. From insurgency to banditry
5. The regiments arrive
6. Screwing down the population
7. Intelligence and collaboration
8. Dirty wars and extra-judicial violence
Afterword: policy, violence, and the Arab revolt
Appendix A: order-of-battle
Appendix B: casualties
Appendix C: women and violence
Appendix D: sartorial wars
Appendix E: dramatis personae and the Arab Higher Committee
Appendix F: currency and wages
Appendix G: the escapes of al-Qawuqji and Hajj Amin
Bibliography
Index.