Dr Rory Miller is Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London.

• Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, About the Contributors, Introduction: Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years, 1 Flawed Foundations: The Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, 2 T he Impact of League Oversight on British Policy in Palestine, 3 ‘Our Jerusalem’: Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British Mandate, 4 Views of Palestine in British Art in Wartime and Peacetime, 1914–1948, 5 No Holy Statistics for the Holy Land: The Fallacy of Growth in the Palestinian Rural Economy, 1920s–1930s, 6 The Peel Commission and Partition, 1936–1938, 7 Lawlessness was the Law: British Armed Forces, the Legal System and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–1939, 8 ‘An Oriental Ireland’: Thinking about Palestine in Terms of the Irish Question during the Mandatory Era, 9 Palestine, 1945–1948: a View from the High Commissioner’s Office, Index

'The volume is not just a fresh look at an indeed popular and challenging subject; Miller has made sure to include contributors that may challenge established visions and opinions... a valuable work for scholars of the Middle East and of imperial history.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Dr Rory Miller is Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London.

• Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, About the Contributors, Introduction: Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years, 1 Flawed Foundations: The Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, 2 T he Impact of League Oversight on British Policy in Palestine, 3 ‘Our Jerusalem’: Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British Mandate, 4 Views of Palestine in British Art in Wartime and Peacetime, 1914–1948, 5 No Holy Statistics for the Holy Land: The Fallacy of Growth in the Palestinian Rural Economy, 1920s–1930s, 6 The Peel Commission and Partition, 1936–1938, 7 Lawlessness was the Law: British Armed Forces, the Legal System and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–1939, 8 ‘An Oriental Ireland’: Thinking about Palestine in Terms of the Irish Question during the Mandatory Era, 9 Palestine, 1945–1948: a View from the High Commissioner’s Office, Index

'The volume is not just a fresh look at an indeed popular and challenging subject; Miller has made sure to include contributors that may challenge established visions and opinions... a valuable work for scholars of the Middle East and of imperial history.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Dr Rory Miller is Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London.

• Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, About the Contributors, Introduction: Britain, Palestine and Empire: The Mandate Years, 1 Flawed Foundations: The Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, 2 T he Impact of League Oversight on British Policy in Palestine, 3 ‘Our Jerusalem’: Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British Mandate, 4 Views of Palestine in British Art in Wartime and Peacetime, 1914–1948, 5 No Holy Statistics for the Holy Land: The Fallacy of Growth in the Palestinian Rural Economy, 1920s–1930s, 6 The Peel Commission and Partition, 1936–1938, 7 Lawlessness was the Law: British Armed Forces, the Legal System and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–1939, 8 ‘An Oriental Ireland’: Thinking about Palestine in Terms of the Irish Question during the Mandatory Era, 9 Palestine, 1945–1948: a View from the High Commissioner’s Office, Index

'The volume is not just a fresh look at an indeed popular and challenging subject; Miller has made sure to include contributors that may challenge established visions and opinions... a valuable work for scholars of the Middle East and of imperial history.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East