DS126 .H87 1950

1st ed.

404 pages : maps ; 24 cm

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Issued also as thesis, Columbia University, under title: The road to partition.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-388) and index.

Preface -- Part I: The shape of the Palestine problem in 1936 -- 1. The origins of the mandate and its operation -- 2. Demographic, economic, and social components -- 3. The political structure of the Yishuv -- 4. The political structure of the Arab community -- Part II: Developments during the period of Axis ascendancy, 1936-1942 -- 5. Arab revolt and partition proposal -- 6. Retreat from partition -- 7. The 1939 white paper -- 8. Arab political stagnation -- 9. The Jewish war effort -- 10. The Zionist struggle against the white paper -- 11. Arab collaboration abroad -- 12. The statists and their opponents -- Part II: Results of the sharpening East-West rivalry after 1942 -- 13. Changing big-power alignment -- 14. Arab political revival -- 15. The Biltmore controversy -- 16. The scope of the problem at the war's close -- 17. Palestine as an Anglo-American problem -- 18. The Anglo-American committee of inquiry -- 19. Provincial autonomy -- 20. The London conference -- 21. Britain's legacy to the United States -- 22. United Nations inquiry -- 23. Partition -- Epilogue: The Palestine war; armistice aftermath; conclusion.

Geschichte 1929-1948.

Palestine -- History -- 1929-1948.

Palestine -- Histoire -- 1929-1948.

Palestine.

Online version: Hurewitz, J.C., 1914-2008. Struggle for Palestine. [1st ed.] New York, Norton [1950] (OCoLC)583124166