Author: Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
King-Crane Report on the Near East
Author: Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The King-Crane Commission
Author: Harry N. Howard
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
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America's Forgotten Middle East Initiative
Author: Andrew Patrick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857737589
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Sent to the Middle East by Woodrow Wilson to ascertain the viability of self-determination in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the King-Crane Commission of 1919 was America's first foray into the region. The commission's controversial recommendations included the rejection of the idea of a Jewish state in Syria, US intervention in the Middle East and the end of French colonial aspirations. The Commission's recommendations proved inflammatory, even though its counsel on the question of the Palestinian mandate was eventually disregarded by Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau in favour of their own national interests. In the ensuing years, the Commission's dismissal of claims by Zionist representatives like David Ben-Gurion on their 'right to Palestine' proved particularly divisive, with some historians labeling it prophetic and accurate, and others arguing that Commission members were biased and ill-informed. Here, in the first book-length analysis of the King-Crane report in nearly 50 years, Andrew Patrick chronicles the history of early US involvement in the region, and challenges extant interpretations of the turbulent relationship between the United States and the Middle East.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857737589
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Sent to the Middle East by Woodrow Wilson to ascertain the viability of self-determination in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the King-Crane Commission of 1919 was America's first foray into the region. The commission's controversial recommendations included the rejection of the idea of a Jewish state in Syria, US intervention in the Middle East and the end of French colonial aspirations. The Commission's recommendations proved inflammatory, even though its counsel on the question of the Palestinian mandate was eventually disregarded by Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau in favour of their own national interests. In the ensuing years, the Commission's dismissal of claims by Zionist representatives like David Ben-Gurion on their 'right to Palestine' proved particularly divisive, with some historians labeling it prophetic and accurate, and others arguing that Commission members were biased and ill-informed. Here, in the first book-length analysis of the King-Crane report in nearly 50 years, Andrew Patrick chronicles the history of early US involvement in the region, and challenges extant interpretations of the turbulent relationship between the United States and the Middle East.
First Publication of King-Crane Report on the Near East
Author: Editor and Publisher Company, New York
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Category : Mandates
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Mandates
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The King-Crane Commission
Author: Peter H. Ady
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East
Author: Akram Fouad Khater
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781439081754
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This unique primary source reader provides first-hand accounts of the events described in Middle Eastern history survey texts. The text is organized into ten chapters featuring chapter introductions and headnotes. The primary source documents cover the late 18th century through the beginning of the 21st, exploring political, social, economic, and cultural history and infusing the volume with the voices of real people. From a well-known scholar in Lebanese history, this supplementary text provides first-hand accounts of events described in major textbooks on modern Middle Eastern history.
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781439081754
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This unique primary source reader provides first-hand accounts of the events described in Middle Eastern history survey texts. The text is organized into ten chapters featuring chapter introductions and headnotes. The primary source documents cover the late 18th century through the beginning of the 21st, exploring political, social, economic, and cultural history and infusing the volume with the voices of real people. From a well-known scholar in Lebanese history, this supplementary text provides first-hand accounts of events described in major textbooks on modern Middle Eastern history.
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
Author: Elizabeth F. Thompson
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 161185900X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal, victoriously entered Damascus and proclaimed a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria. Faisal won American support for self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference, but other Entente powers plotted to protect their colonial interests. Under threat of European occupation, the Syrian-Arab Congress declared independence on March 8, 1920 and crowned Faisal king of a 'civil representative monarchy.' Sheikh Rashid Rida, the most prominent Islamic thinker of the day, became Congress president and supervised the drafting of a constitution that established the world's first Arab democracy and guaranteed equal rights for all citizens, including non-Muslims. But France and Britain refused to recognize the Damascus government and instead imposed a system of mandates on the pretext that Arabs were not yet ready for self-government. In July 1920, the French invaded and crushed the Syrian state. The fragile coalition of secular modernizers and Islamic reformers that had established democracy was destroyed, with profound consequences that reverberate still. Using previously untapped primary sources, including contemporary newspaper accounts, reports of the Syrian-Arab Congress, and letters and diaries from participants, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs is a groundbreaking account of an extraordinary, brief moment of unity and hope - and of its destruction.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 161185900X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal, victoriously entered Damascus and proclaimed a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria. Faisal won American support for self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference, but other Entente powers plotted to protect their colonial interests. Under threat of European occupation, the Syrian-Arab Congress declared independence on March 8, 1920 and crowned Faisal king of a 'civil representative monarchy.' Sheikh Rashid Rida, the most prominent Islamic thinker of the day, became Congress president and supervised the drafting of a constitution that established the world's first Arab democracy and guaranteed equal rights for all citizens, including non-Muslims. But France and Britain refused to recognize the Damascus government and instead imposed a system of mandates on the pretext that Arabs were not yet ready for self-government. In July 1920, the French invaded and crushed the Syrian state. The fragile coalition of secular modernizers and Islamic reformers that had established democracy was destroyed, with profound consequences that reverberate still. Using previously untapped primary sources, including contemporary newspaper accounts, reports of the Syrian-Arab Congress, and letters and diaries from participants, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs is a groundbreaking account of an extraordinary, brief moment of unity and hope - and of its destruction.
The King-Crane commission; An Amer. inquiry in the Middle East
Author: Harry Nicholas Howard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Middle East and the United States
Author: David W. Lesch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429972415
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This volume addresses the changes in the Middle East—and in the United States as well—that has significantly affected the US-Middle Eastern dynamic. It provides an objective, cross-cultural assessment of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429972415
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This volume addresses the changes in the Middle East—and in the United States as well—that has significantly affected the US-Middle Eastern dynamic. It provides an objective, cross-cultural assessment of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
The King-Crane Commission
Author: Harry Howard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932441055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932441055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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