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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"British Mandate"”.
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Mental Illness and the British Mandate in Palestine, 1920-1948
This thesis examines the ways in which the British mandate conceptualised, encountered, and sought to manage mental illness in Palestine between 1920 and 1948. The subject of mental illness has hitherto received partial consideration by historians interested in the Yishuv, who treat this period as …
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Archaeology in the British Mandate of Palestine between WWI and WWII
The administration of archaeology in the Mandate of Palestine took place in a very particular situation, both within the British Empire and outside of it. The Department of Antiquities (DAP) operated within the rules and framework of a bureaucracy answerable to the directions and ideals of the …
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The Impact of Homeland Politics on the National Identity of Palestinians Reflected in the Diaspora
… administered under the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate directly affected the national identity of the indigenous population. Just before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, 'Palestinian' came to refer to the Muslim and Christian majority, and excluded the Jewish minority, as a …
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Cultural mandates, artistic missions, and "The Welfare of Palestine," 1876-1948
… of the Ottoman Empire, the First World War, British military and colonial occupation (in the form of the British Mandate from 1920-48), as well as the growth of Arab nationalism and Zionism. Previous scholarship on Palestinian art defines it as a national artistic movement, born out of a …
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Women, Violence, and the "Arab Question" in Early Zionist Literature
… to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the import of rape and domestic violence in works by authors such as L.A. Arieli, Yehuda Burla, Aharon Reuveni, Yitzhak Shami, and Shoshana Shababo, I demonstrate that Zionist motions of race and gender …
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The History of Hebrew Secondary Mathematics Education in Palestine During the First Half of the Twentieth Century
… acknowledged Hebrew educational system under the British Mandate; the difficulties of constructing the first Hebrew secondary school curriculum; the issue of graduation examinations; the fight to teach all subjects in the Hebrew language; and the struggle to teach without textbooks or sufficient …
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WESTMINSTER LEGACY? EXECUTIVE AGENDA CONTROL AND LEGISLATIVE TIME IN A MULTIPARTY PARLIAMENTTHE ISRAELI KNESSET IN COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
… an executive-centric procedural core from the British Mandate. Ultimately, this research makes several distinct contributions. For legislative studies, it introduces a comprehensive new dataset and an integrated model of the strategic lifecycle of legislative conflict. For Israeli studies, it …
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Saba George Shiber's Kuwaitopolis And The Emergence Of The Arab Urban-Architect
… asserting the independence of the state from the British mandate in June 1961, the decade following Kuwait’s independence saw the birth of a national approach that was facilitated by the growing availability of a neighboring Arab workforce. The shared vision and collaborative work of young Arab …
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The Outsider: Elizabeth P. MacCallum, the Canadian Department of External Affairs, and the Palestine Mandate to 1947
… challenges confronting the Middle East and the British Mandate in Palestine, the central ground of dispute between the Arab and Jewish peoples. MacCallum joined Canada’s Department of External Affairs (DEA) in 1942, not as a regional specialist, but as a wartime clerk. Where there had been …
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Associational Life, Print Culture and Political Thought in Najaf, 1905-c.1941
… such as memoirs and pamphlets, as well as the British diplomatic and colonial archive, it explores Najafi ideas about social reform, constitutionalism, religious renewal, colonialism and nationalism. It pays special attention to the institutional settings for these debates, specifically the …
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Unsettling Times: land, political economy and protest in the Bedouin villages of central Jordan
… institutions through Ottoman rule and the British Mandate, examining various processes of frontier governmentality that sought to pacify and settle, but also define and repurpose Bedouin as a conceptual category. Making an intervention in the long-standing anthropological debate around the …
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Planning under deep political conflict: the relationship between Afforestation planning and the struggle over space in the Palestinian Territories
… in two distinct historical colonial periods: the British Mandate in Palestine and the current Israeli occupation. The study hopes to result into conceptual contributions for spatial planning in the PT. The conceptualization of this research will provide an understanding for future studies about …