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States of separation : transfer, partition, and the making of the modern Middle East / Laura Robson.
By: Robson, Laura [author.]
.Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017Description: xiv, 247 pages : maps.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520292154; 9780520292161.Subject(s): Middle East -- Population policy | Middle East -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Middle East -- History -- 20th century | Iraq -- History -- 20th century | Syria -- History -- 20th century | Palestine -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 956 Summary: "In the interwar Eastern Mediterranean, European colonial modes of establishing land claims and controlling populations converged with a recent Ottoman past featuring desperate and violent efforts at nationalization and an increasingly empowered Zionist settler colonialism. States of Separation explores how this confluence produced a series of internationally supported plans to move "minority" communities in, around, and out of the newly constituted states of Iraq, Syria, and Palestine under the aegis of the League of Nations - a massive demographic experiment that carried lasting political and social consequences for the twentieth century Middle East and the international order."--Provided by publisher.
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 956 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 014759 |
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| 956 LEW From Babel to Dragomans : | 956 MAY Soldier in the sand : a personal history of the modern Middle East / | 956 RAN After such knowledge, what forgiveness? : | 956 ROB States of separation : | 956.00491597 MCD A modern history of the Kurds / | 956.014 FRA The First Crusade : | 956.015 FAR The Ottoman Empire and the world around it / |
"In the interwar Eastern Mediterranean, European colonial modes of establishing land claims and controlling populations converged with a recent Ottoman past featuring desperate and violent efforts at nationalization and an increasingly empowered Zionist settler colonialism. States of Separation explores how this confluence produced a series of internationally supported plans to move "minority" communities in, around, and out of the newly constituted states of Iraq, Syria, and Palestine under the aegis of the League of Nations - a massive demographic experiment that carried lasting political and social consequences for the twentieth century Middle East and the international order."--Provided by publisher.