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Nor, though I have included ‘Palestine’ in my title, will there be any attempt to define George’s attitude to the Palestine problem. That would require far more serious and systematic research than I have been able to undertake. Palestine and the 1930s simply provide the spatiotemporal setting for what I have to say about George.
470 pp. The Arab Awakening is a 1938 book by George Antonius, published in London by Hamish Hamilton. It is viewed as the foundational textbook of the history of modern Arab nationalism. According to Martin Kramer, The Arab Awakening "became the preferred textbook for successive generations of British and American historians and their students".
Palestinian writer and politician; Greek-Orthodox Christian of Lebanese origin; born in 1891 in Cairo; graduate from Cambridge University in 1913; Deputy Press Censor in Alexandria during World War I; came to Palestine in 1921 and started civil service career in the Educa tion Department (1921) and the Secretariat (1927) of the British Mandate ...
This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict. Betrayal of Palestine is an important and innovative work about the continuing controversy of empire and nationalism. This book traces Antonius's contribution and ideas on nation building and good ...
First published in 1938, this fine book is the first study of the Arab national movement ever written. 'The whole of this brilliantly written book moves at the
6 de nov. de 2015 · George Antonius. Pickle Partners Publishing, Nov 6, 2015 - History - 401 pages. This remarkable book on a complex and controversial subject is widely regarded as the best full account of the rise of the Arab national movement.
George Antonius (1891-1942) was the "new historian" of his day. In 1938, he published The Arab Awakening, a book that sought to shatter conventional wisdom about the commitments Britain made to the Arabs in World War I.For twenty years, Britain had maintained that Palestine was excluded from the promises of Arab independence made by Britain during the war.
