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The Palestinian national movement gestated in the early decades of the twentieth century, but it was born during the Great Revolt of 1936–39, a period of Arab rebellion against British policy in the Palestine mandate. In The Crime of Nationalism, Matthew Kraig Kelly makes the unique case that the key to understanding the Great Revolt lies in what he calls the “crimino-national” domain—the overlap between the criminological and the nationalist dimensions of British imperial discourse, and the primary terrain upon which the war of 1936–39 was fought. Kelly’s analysis amounts to a new history of one of the major anticolonial insurgencies of the interwar period and a critical moment in the lead-up to Israel’s founding. The Crime of Nationalism  offers crucial lessons for the scholarly understanding of nationalism and insurgency more broadly. ** From the Inside Flap "A major contribution that deals with a key moment in Palestinian history. Kelly shows convincingly that Palestinians launched and persisted in their armed struggle largely in response to the violent methods that Great Britain routinely employed during its colonial occupation. He demonstrates as well how the British gove

Author

Matthew Kraig Kelly

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520291485

Subjects

History, Political Science, Language Learning

Rating

5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14