Britain and the Arab Middle East: World War 1 and its Aftermath

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Notes

1 Cf. Robert Rhodes James, Gallipoli (New York: MacMillan, 1965).

2 In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The MacMahon-Husayn Correspondence and its Interpretations, 1914-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978). Lieshout does mention Kedourie’s book, in two random notes, on pp.448 and 449.

3 Ibid, pp.73–90.

4 Sykes to Faysal, 3 March 1918, FO 882, National Archives.

5 Mayir Vereté, ‘The Balfour Declaration and its makers’, Middle Eastern Studies, 6/1 (1970) pp.48–76; the article appears in Lieshout’s Bibliography, but makes only one nominal appearance in his notes, on p.466.

6 Stuart Cohen, English Zionists and British Jews The Communal Politics of Anglo-Jewry, 1896-1920 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982); Chaim Bermant, The Cousinhood: The Anglo-Jewish Gentry (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1971).

7 Michael J Cohen, Britain’s Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-48 (London/New York: Routledge, 2014), p.44; also Barbara J. Smith, The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy, 1920–1929 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993), p.7.