- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- Cambridge military histories
Cambridge military histories.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Hughes, Matthew, 1965- author.
- Published
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
- Locale
- Palestine
Great Britain
Middle East
Eretz Israel
- Contents
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Framing the Arab revolt
Emergency state in Mandate Palestine
Rebels and revolt
From insurgency to banditry
Regiments arrive
Screwing down the population
Collaboration and intelligence
Dirty wars with extra-judicial violence
Afterword: Policy, violence, and the Arab revolt
Appendix A: Order of the battle
Appendix B: Casualties
Appendix C: Women and violence
Appendix D: Sartorial wars
Appendix E: Dramatis personae and membership of the Arab higher committee
Appendix F: Currency and wages
Appendix G: The escapes of al-Qawuqji and Hajj Amin.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-460) and index.
Framing the Arab revolt -- Emergency state in Mandate Palestine -- Rebels and revolt -- From insurgency to banditry -- Regiments arrive -- Screwing down the population -- Collaboration and intelligence -- Dirty wars with extra-judicial violence -- Afterword: Policy, violence, and the Arab revolt -- Appendix A: Order of the battle -- Appendix B: Casualties -- Appendix C: Women and violence -- Appendix D: Sartorial wars -- Appendix E: Dramatis personae and membership of the Arab higher committee -- Appendix F: Currency and wages -- Appendix G: The escapes of al-Qawuqji and Hajj Amin.
