Table of Contents

Part I: Before the Mandates 1900-1922
1: The Decline of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East and the 'Arab Awakening' before 1914
2: War and the Partition of the Ottoman Empire 1914-1922
Part II: Alien rule and Nationalist Reactions 1918-1958
3: Britain in Mesopotamia/Iraq 1918-1958
4: Palestine: The Genesis of the Mandate
5: Palestine: The British Mandate 1918-1948
6: Transjordan 1918-1956
7: Syria and the French 1918-1946
8: Lebanon and the French 1918-1946
Part III
9: Conclusions
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Following service as pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, a history degree at Oxford, and a period of school-teaching, D. K. Fieldhouse embarked on a distinguished academic career. He was Beit Lecturer in Commonwealth History and a Fellow of Jesus College and Nuffield College, Oxford, and Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Cambridge. He has been a visiting professor at Yale and Stanford and visiting fellow at the ANU, Canberra.

Reviews

Fieldhouse's strength lies in his detailed and extensive knowledge of British imperial and general history. Jan Zouplna, Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies, vol 74 As one would expect from Fieldhouse, the style is brisk and efficient, the writing lucid and the substance fair-minded. In a subject of daunting complexity, and on which much that is written has a polemical purpose, even well-informed readers will find its balance and clarity exceptionally useful. John Darwin, TLS ...a valuable point of access [and] extremely useful. John Burman, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 17/1 ...a sound history of the Fertile Crescent under mandate The English Historical Review