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Britain's pacification of Palestine : the British Army, the colonial state, and the Arab revolt, 1936-1939 / Matthew Hughes.

By: Hughes, Matthew [author.]Series: Cambridge military historiesDescription: xxvi, 478 pagesSubject(s): Counterinsurgency -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century | Mandates -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century | Imperialism -- History -- 20th century | Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948 | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Palestine | Palestine -- Histoire -- 1917-1948 | Palestine -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1917-1948 | Great Britain -- Relations extérieures -- PalestineLOC classification: DS126. | H82 2019
Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Frontispiece; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Glossary; Nomenclature; 1 Framing the Arab Revolt; The Deaths of Zvi Danenberg and Israel Chazan, 15 April 1936; The Death of Shaykh 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam, 20 November 1935; Counter-insurgency and Pacification; Terrorists and Terrorism: Guerrillas and Bandits; Sources and Bias; Positioning the Text; 2 The Emergency State in Mandate Palestine; The Law in These Parts; The Criminal Court System
Guilt and the Burden of ProofThe Legislative Timeline, 1917-1935; Emergency Regulations, 1936; The Legislative Timeline, 1937-1939; Military Courts; 3 Rebels and Revolt; A Farmers' Revolt; General Strike; Leadership and Command; Funding; 4 From Insurgency to Banditry; Shock Action; Fawzi al-Qawuqji; Rebel Depredations; Damascus Rebel Command; 5 The Regiments Arrive; Military Traditions; Kinetic Operations; Demolition; Civil-Military Relations: From Military Courts to Military Rule; 6 Screwing Down the Population; The Royal Ulster Rifles; 'Searching'; Fining; Punitive Posts and Passes
CensorshipCurfews; Detention; Hunger and Homelessness; 7 Collaboration and Intelligence; Palestinian Collaboration: Peace Bands; Jewish Collaboration: Supernumerary and Special Police; Jewish Collaboration: Special Night Squads; Minorities and Collaboration: Druze, Christians, and Bedouin; Intelligence; 8 Dirty Wars and Extra-judicial Violence; Law and Morality; Torture and Torture Centres; Assassinations and Death Squads; Army Reprisals: al-Bassa; The Manchester Regiment's 'Gauntlet'; Searching as Torture: Halhul; 'Mascots' and 'Shot Trying to Escape'; Afterword; Appendix A: Order of Battle
The Arabs-PalestiniansIntroduction; Numbers; Field Commanders; Central Organisation; Local Organisation; The British; Introduction; Organisation; 1936; Infantry; Cavalry and Armour; RAF and Support Units; 1937; Infantry; 1938-39; Infantry; Cavalry and Armour; RAF and Support Units; British Regimental Battle Honours; Senior Police Officer Ranks and Numbers73; Appendix B: Casualties; British: Overall Numbers; British: Police Deaths; 1936; 1937; 1938-39; Rebels and Palestinians: Official and Unofficial Deaths; Rebels and Palestinians: Wounded; Jews; Appendix C: Women and Violence
As Victims: Sexual ViolenceAs Colonial Subjects: Searching Women; As Resistors: Women as Warriors; Appendix D: Sartorial Wars; Appendix E: Dramatis Personae and Membership of the Arab Higher Committee; Arabs and Palestinians; British; Jewish; Membership of the Arab Higher Committee, Formed 25-26 April 1936; Appendix F: Currency and Wages; Appendix G: The Escapes of al-Qawuqji and Hajj Amin; Bibliography; Primary Sources (Unpublished); Israel; Lebanon; United Kingdom; United States; Fieldtrips (Israel, 2010); Interviews and Correspondence; Primary Sources (Printed, Arabic)
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Frontispiece; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Glossary; Nomenclature; 1 Framing the Arab Revolt; The Deaths of Zvi Danenberg and Israel Chazan, 15 April 1936; The Death of Shaykh 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam, 20 November 1935; Counter-insurgency and Pacification; Terrorists and Terrorism: Guerrillas and Bandits; Sources and Bias; Positioning the Text; 2 The Emergency State in Mandate Palestine; The Law in These Parts; The Criminal Court System

Guilt and the Burden of ProofThe Legislative Timeline, 1917-1935; Emergency Regulations, 1936; The Legislative Timeline, 1937-1939; Military Courts; 3 Rebels and Revolt; A Farmers' Revolt; General Strike; Leadership and Command; Funding; 4 From Insurgency to Banditry; Shock Action; Fawzi al-Qawuqji; Rebel Depredations; Damascus Rebel Command; 5 The Regiments Arrive; Military Traditions; Kinetic Operations; Demolition; Civil-Military Relations: From Military Courts to Military Rule; 6 Screwing Down the Population; The Royal Ulster Rifles; 'Searching'; Fining; Punitive Posts and Passes

CensorshipCurfews; Detention; Hunger and Homelessness; 7 Collaboration and Intelligence; Palestinian Collaboration: Peace Bands; Jewish Collaboration: Supernumerary and Special Police; Jewish Collaboration: Special Night Squads; Minorities and Collaboration: Druze, Christians, and Bedouin; Intelligence; 8 Dirty Wars and Extra-judicial Violence; Law and Morality; Torture and Torture Centres; Assassinations and Death Squads; Army Reprisals: al-Bassa; The Manchester Regiment's 'Gauntlet'; Searching as Torture: Halhul; 'Mascots' and 'Shot Trying to Escape'; Afterword; Appendix A: Order of Battle

The Arabs-PalestiniansIntroduction; Numbers; Field Commanders; Central Organisation; Local Organisation; The British; Introduction; Organisation; 1936; Infantry; Cavalry and Armour; RAF and Support Units; 1937; Infantry; 1938-39; Infantry; Cavalry and Armour; RAF and Support Units; British Regimental Battle Honours; Senior Police Officer Ranks and Numbers73; Appendix B: Casualties; British: Overall Numbers; British: Police Deaths; 1936; 1937; 1938-39; Rebels and Palestinians: Official and Unofficial Deaths; Rebels and Palestinians: Wounded; Jews; Appendix C: Women and Violence

As Victims: Sexual ViolenceAs Colonial Subjects: Searching Women; As Resistors: Women as Warriors; Appendix D: Sartorial Wars; Appendix E: Dramatis Personae and Membership of the Arab Higher Committee; Arabs and Palestinians; British; Jewish; Membership of the Arab Higher Committee, Formed 25-26 April 1936; Appendix F: Currency and Wages; Appendix G: The Escapes of al-Qawuqji and Hajj Amin; Bibliography; Primary Sources (Unpublished); Israel; Lebanon; United Kingdom; United States; Fieldtrips (Israel, 2010); Interviews and Correspondence; Primary Sources (Printed, Arabic)

"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"--