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Contested Historical Interpretations of Palestine The Mandate Period and the 1948 War - Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine, by Deborah S. Bernstein. (SUNY Series in Israeli Studies) 277 pages, photos, notes, bibliography, index. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. $23.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-7914-4540-2 - The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, edited by Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim. (Cambridge Middle East Studies) 235 pages, maps, notes, bibliography, index. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. $54.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-521-79139-1 - Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine, 1918–1948, by A. J. Sherman. 245 pages, photos, notes, bibliography, index. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. $17.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-8018-6620-0 - Pangs of the Messiah: The Troubled Birth of the Jewish State, by Martin Sicker. 280 pages, bibliography, index. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. $55.00 (Cloth) ISBN 0-275-96638-0

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Ann M. Lesch*
Affiliation:
Villanova University

Abstract

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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2002

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References

page 35 note 1 One might note McTague, John J., British Policy in Palestine, 1917–1922 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983)Google Scholar, for his insights into the British military administration; Shepherd, Naomi, Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine, 1917–1948 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000)Google Scholar, for her focus on the ways in which Palestine was ruled essentially as a Crown Colony and the limited efforts to invest in health and education for the majority, Arab; and Kolinsky, Martin, Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928–1935 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993)Google Scholar, which delineates the failed efforts to contain escalating Arab protests against the Zionist project.

page 36 note 1 Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, rev. ed. 1996.

page 36 note 2 Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996; and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

page 37 note 1 The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947–1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).Google Scholar