Week 7: Contesting Empire: Nationalism and Rebellions, 1918-1939

Mini Lecture

Seminar Readings:

Primary Sources:

1- Statement by the General Syrian Congress (July 2, 1919), in John Felton, The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History (Washington: CQ Press, 2008).

2-Excerpts of the Peel Commission Report, in John Felton, The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History (Washington: CQ Press, 2008).

Secondary Readings:

Michael J. Provence, ‘Ottoman Modernity, Colonialism, and Insurgency in the Interwar Arab East,’ International Journal of Middle East Studies 43, no.2 (2011): 205-225.

Jacob Norris, ‘Repression and Rebellion: Britain’s Response to the Arab Revolt in Palestine of 1936-39,’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 36, no.1: 25-45.

Laila Parsons, 'Rebels without borders: southern Syria and Palestine, 1919-1936,' in Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan, eds., The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates (London: Routdledge: 2015).

Ellis Goldberg, ‘Peasants in Revolt-Egypt 1919,’ International Journal of Middle East Studies 24, no.2 (1992): 261-280.

Further Readings:

Toby Dodge, Inventing Iraq: the Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).

Abigail Jacobson, From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011).

Keith David Watenpaugh, Being modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).

Derek Jonathan Penslar, Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020).

Dimitry Shumsky, Beyond the nation-state: the Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013).

James L. Gelvin, Divided loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

Zeev Sternhell and David Maisel (transl.), The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).

Anita Shapira, Land and power: the Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)

Ernest Dawn, From Ottomanism to Arabism: Essays on the Origins of Arab Nationalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973).

Patrick Seale, The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Laura Robson, States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).

Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016).

Laila Parsons, The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914–1948 (London: Saqi Books, 2017).

Avi Shlaim, The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine 1921-1951 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998).

Gudrun Krämer, A History of Palestine: from the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

Cemil Aydin, The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).

Rashid Khalidi “Arab Nationalism: Historical Problems in the Literature” The American Historical Review 96, no.5 (1991): 1363-1373.