One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate

Author
Tom Segev
Publisher
Abacus
Language
English
Edition
New Ed
Year
2001
Page
624
ISBN
034911286X,9780349112862
File Type
epub
File Size
1.0 MiB

Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control and led to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century. When they arrived the country lay in a Levantine nirvana; by the time they left it had become the arena for one of the century's major international conflicts. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Lawrence of Arabia, Winston Churchill, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, King Feisal, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion. One momentous consequence of these 30 years was that the Jewish population increased by a factor of ten.

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