Ilan Pappe is a renowned Israeli historian. He is Professor of History at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, Director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, A History of Modern Palestine, The Modern Middle East, and with Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians. He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He lives in Exeter.

• Foreword 7; Introduction 11; Prologue 23; Chapter 1 The Making of a Family 33; Chapter 2 In the Shadow of Acre and Cairo 53; Chapter 3 Struggling with Reform, 1840-76 78; Chapter 4 The Death of the Old World 92; Chapter 5 Facing the Young Turks 127; Chapter 6 In the Shadow of British Military Rule 160; Chapter 7 British Betrayal and the Rise of the National Aristocracy 188; Chapter 8 The Grand Mufti and His Family 212; Chapter 9 The Great Revolt: The Family as Revolutionary Aristocracy 246; Chapter 10 The Family in Exile 283; Chapter 11 World War II and the Nakbah 304; Epilogue 342; Family Trees 353; Notes 355; Bibliography 383; Index

'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' John Pilger; 'Along with Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' New Statesman; 'A spellbinding account' Mahmoud Yazbak; 'An excellent book ... It throws considerable light not just on the Husayni family but on the history and politics of the Palestinians since the eighteenth century.' Avi Shlaim