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Graduate Center. Spring 2018. Doctoral Program in History 1 City University of New York – Graduate Center. Spring 2018. Doctoral Program in History/Master’s Program in Middle Eastern Studies Room: Course Number: HIST 78110/MES 74500 Tuesday: 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Course Instructor: Simon Davis, [email protected] Office Phone: (718) 289 5677. Palestine Under The British Mandate: Origins, Evolutions and Implications, 1906-1949. This course examines how and with what consequences British interests at the time of the First World War identified and pursued control over Palestine, the subsequent forms such projections took, the crises which followed and their eventual consequences. Particular themes will be explored through analytical discussions of assigned historiographic materials, chiefly recent journal literature. Learning Objectives: Students will be encouraged to evaluate still-contested historical phenomena such as British undertakings with Zionism, colonialist relationships with Arab Palestine, institution-making and economic development, social and cultural transformations, resistance and political violence. This will be understood in the broader context of Middle Eastern politics in the era of late European colonial imperialism. Consonant and particular local experience in Palestine will also be addressed, exploring the effect of British Mandatory administration, especially in ethnic and sectarian-inflected questions of status, social and material conditions, identity, community, law and justice, expression and political rights. Finally, how and why did the Mandate end in a British debacle, Zionist triumph and Arab Palestinian catastrophe, with what main legacies resulting? On the basis of these studies students will each complete a research essay from the list below, along with a number of smaller critical exercises, and a final examination. Course Work and Assessment: Course marks will be compiled as follows: Term paper, 40%; final examination, 40%; course work 20%. The latter will be comprise attendance, contribution to class discussions and working atmosphere, and short document, article and book analyses in class. Course Texts: although class sessions will be based on discussing selected items of historical literature relating to particular themes in each topic, the following survey works provide a useful preparatory overview: Krämer, Gudrun, A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, (Princeton, NJ; Princeton University Press, 2008). Segev, Tom, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, (New York; Macmillan/Picador, 2001). Our Ten Discussion Topics are: 1. History, Palestine and the Mandate Period: Preparatory Reading Materials: Segev pp. 1-10; Krämer, Chapter 8. Bunton, Martin, ‘Mandate Daze: Stories of British Rule in Palestine, 1917-1948,’ International Journal of Middle East Studies, 35, 3 (2003). [Review] Gerber, Haim, ‘Zionism, Orientalism and the Palestinians,’ Journal of Palestine Studies, 33, 1 (2003). 2 Lesch, Anne M. ‘Review: Contested Historical Interpretations of Palestine: The Mandate Period and the 1948 War,’ Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 36, 1 (2002). Roberts, Nicholas H., ‘Re-Remembering the Mandate: Historiographical Debates and Revisionist History in the Study of Palestine,’ History Compass, 9, 3 (2011). 2. A Changing Palestine Before the British: Identity, Space and Emerging Modernity. Preparatory Readings: Krämer, Chapter 4. Campos, Michelle U., ‘Between “Beloved Ottomania” and “The Land of Israel”: The Struggle over Ottomanism and Zionism among Palestine’s Sephardi Jews, 1908-1913,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 37, 4 (2005). Jacobson Abigail, ‘A City Living through Crisis: Jerusalem During World War I,’ British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 6,1 (2009). Kamel, Lorenzo, ‘Whose Land? Land Tenure in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine,’ British Journal of Middle East Studies, 41, 2 (2014). Kimmerling, Baruch, ‘The Formation of Palestinian Collective Identities: The Ottoman and Mandatory Periods,’ Middle Eastern Studies, 36 (2000). 3. Britain, the First World War and the Conceptualization of a Post-Ottoman Order. Preparatory Readings: Krämer, Chapter 7; Segev, Chapters 3 and 4. Gilmour, David, ‘The Unregarded Prophet: Lord Curzon and the Palestine Question,’ Journal of Palestine Studies, 25, 3 (1996). Gutwein Danny, ‘The Politics of the Balfour Declaration: Nationalism, Imperialism and the Limits of Zionist- British Cooperation,’ Journal of Israeli History, 35 2 (2016). Renton, James, ‘Changing Languages of Empire and the Orient: Britain and the Invention of the Middle East, 1917-1918’, Historical Journal, 50, 3 (2007). Rosen, Jacob. ‘Captain Reginald Hall and the Balfour Declaration,’ Middle Eastern Studies 24, 1 (1988). 4. Institutionalizing, Yet Qualifying, the Jewish National Home: Britain Shapes the Mandate, 1918- 1925. Preparatory Readings: Krämer, Chapter 9. Segev, Chapters 5, 6 and 8. Banko, Lauren, ‘Claiming Identities in Palestine: Migration and Nationality Under The Mandate,’ Journal of Palestine Studies, 46, 2 (2017). Cohen, Michael J., ‘Was the Balfour Declaration at Risk in 1923? Zionism and British Imperialism,’ Journal of Israeli History, 29, 1 (2010). Huneidi, Sahar, ‘Was Balfour Policy Reversible? The Colonial Office, 1921-23,’ Journal of Palestine Studies, 27, 2 (1998). 3 Wasserstein, Bernard, ‘Sir Herbert Samuel and the Government of Palestine,’ English Historical Review, 91, 361 (1976). 5. Land Pressures as a Catalyst of Conflict: British ‘Colonial Bungling’? 1926-1936. Preparatory Readings: Krämer, Chapter 11. Eini, Rosa, I.M. El-, ‘Rural Indebtedness and Agricultural Credit Supplies in Palestine in the 1930s,’ Middle Eastern Studies, 33, 2 (1997). Suwaed, Muhammad,.’The Wadi Al-Hawarith Affair (Emek Hefer): Disputed Land and the Struggle for Ownership: 1929-33.’ Middle Eastern Studies, 52, 1 (2016). Nadan, Amos, ‘Colonial Misunderstanding of an Efficient Peasant Institution: Land Settlement and Musha Tenure in Mandate Palestine,’ Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient, 46, 3 (2003). Stein, Kenneth W., ‘The Jewish National Fund: Land Purchase Methods and Priorities, 1924-1939,’ Middle Eastern Studies, 20, 2 (1984). 6. Urban Life, Industrial Work and Ethnic Segregation in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1939. Preparatory Readings: Krämer, Chapter 8; Segev, Chapters 8-10. Goren, Tamir, ‘Hasan Bey Shukri and His Contribution to the Integration of Jews and Arabs in the Haifa Municipality at the Time of the British Mandate,’ British Journal of Middle East Studies, 33, 1 (2006). Lockman, Zachary, ‘Railway Workers and Relational History: Arabs and Jews in British-Ruled Palestine,’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 35 (1993). Roberts, Nicholas H., ‘Dividing Jerusalem: British Urban Planning in the Holy City,’ Journal of Palestine Studies, 42, 4, (2013). Yazbak, Mahmoud, ‘The Arabs in Haifa, From Majority to Minority: Processes of Change (1840-1948),’ Israel Affairs, 9, 1-2 (2003). 7. Cultural, Gender and Social Transformations in Mandatory Palestine. Preparatory Readings: Segev, Chapter 9. Fleischmann, Helen, ‘The Emergence of the Palestinian Women's Movement, 1929-39,’ Journal of Palestine Studies, 29, 3 (2000). Hirsch, Dafna, ‘We Are Here to Bring the West, Not Only to Ourselves’: Zionist Occidentalism and the Discourse of Hygiene in Mandate Palestine,’ International Journal of Middle East Studies, 41, 4 (2009). Jad, Islah, ‘Rereading the British Mandate in Palestine: Gender and the Urban–Rural Divide in Education,’ International Journal of Middle East Studies, 39, 3 (2007). Naor, Arye, ‘Jabotinsky's New Jew: Concept and Models,’ Journal of Israeli History, 30, 2 (2011). Yosef, Dorit, ‘From Yekke to Zionist: Narrative Strategies in Life Stories of Central European Jewish Women Immigrants to Mandate Palestine,’ Journal of Israeli History, 33, 2 (2014). 4 8. Political Violence, Advancement of and Resistance to Imperial, Zionist and Palestine Arab Desiderata, 1920-1939. Preparatory Reading: Krämer, Chapters 10 and 12. Segev, Chapters 14 and 20. Chazan, Meir, ‘The Dispute in Mapai over “Self-Restraint” and “Purity of Arms” during the Arab Revolt,’ Jewish Social Studies, 15, 3 (2009). Hughes, Matthew, ‘Terror in Galilee: British-Jewish Collaboration and the Special Night Squads in Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1938–39,’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43, 4 (2015). Kelly, Matthew Kraig, ‘The Revolt of 1936: A Revision,’ Journal of Palestine Studies, 44, 2 (2015). Kolinsky, Martin, ‘Premeditation in the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929,’ Middle Eastern Studies, 26, 1 (1990). Townshend, Charles, ‘Going to the Wall: The Failure of British Rule in Palestine, 1928-1931,’ Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 30, 2 (2002). Yazbak, Mahmud, ‘From Poverty to Revolt: Economic Factors in the Outbreak of the 1936 Rebellion in Palestine,’ Middle Eastern Studies, 36 (2000). 9. From the Peel Commission to UNSCOP: Britain and the Disposal of the Mandate, 1937-1947. Preparatory Readings: Krämer, Chapter 13; Segev, Chapters 21 and 22. Cohen, Michael J., ‘Appeasement in the Middle East: The British White Paper on Palestine, May 1939,’ Historical Journal, 16, 3 (1973). Klieman, Aaron S., ‘The Resolution of Conflicts Through Territorial Partition: the Palestine Experience,’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 22 (1980). Hoffman, Bruce, ‘The Palestine Police Force and the Challenges of Gathering Counterterrorism Intelligence, 1939–1947.’ Small Wars and Insurgencies, 24, 4 (2013).
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