384 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1986. The Arab League, founded in 1945, was regarded by many as a ploy of the British to secure the cooperation and goodwill of the Arabs during the Second World War and as an instrument to ensure the British presence in the Middle East after the war. This book presents a different picture. The British policy was a far cry from supporting the Arab unity movement. On the... Read more
Chapter 1 Hashemite Attempts at Fertile Crescent Unity; Chapter 2 The Ever-Present Panacea – Arab Federation as a Solution to the Palestine Question; Chapter 3 The Rise of Political Pan-Arabism; Chapter 4 British Policy Regarding Pan-Arabism; Chapter 5 The Formation of the Arab League; conclusion Conclusions;
Biography
Yehoshua Porath is professor of Middle Eastern History at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
