Arab Nationalism and the Palestinians, 1850-1939
This historical analysis, from the Ottoman pe¬riod to the Arab Revolt of 1939, examines the early years of the Palestinian national move¬ment within the wider cultural, socioeconomic and political context of the Arab World. This work discusses the great challenges that impe¬rialism and Zionism posed for the region and traces the growth of the Arab liberation move¬ment and its offshoot, the Palestinian national movement. The author, a professor of history at Birzeit University, explores the tensions between Palestinian nationalists and Arab leaders, as well as the failure of the traditional leadership in coping with the trans¬formations in Palestinian and Arab society.
Preface
Chapter 1 : The Foundation of the Arab Liberation Movement
-Conceptualization and Difficulties of Concept Use in the Study of the Arab East
-Nineteenth Century Arab East
-Nineteenth Century Palestine and Colonial Settlements
Chapter 2 : The Arab Liberation Movement: The Formative Years
-Initial Formation
-The Palestinian National Resistance
-The Crucial Formative Years
-The Arab Movement and the Palestinian Resistance
-The Arabs and World War I
Chapter 3: The Palestinian National Movement
-A Traditional Leadership and a Decline
-Frustrated Aspirations and an Uprising
-Thwarted Arabism and the Politics of Collaborationism
-The State of Weakness and Loss of Control
Chapter 4
-The Palestinian Struggle for Independence (1928-1939) – The Rising Masses and the Traditional Leadership and Its Allegiances
-Embryonic Formations of the Crucial Years
-The Road to Confrontation
-The Palestinian National Uprising 1936 to 1939