Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates

Cyrus Schayegh is Associate Professor at the Department for Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University. His publications include Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong: Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900-1950 (California University Press, 2009) and the forthcoming Transnationalization: A History of the Modern Middle East, under contract by Harvard University Press.Andrew Arsan is University Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. His publications include Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (Hurst & Company and Oxford University Press, 2014).

"The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates marks a groundbreaking contribution to the fields of twentieth century History and Modern Middle East studies. At once globalizing the study of the Middle East and deprovincializing the study of World War I and its aftermath, this book will quickly become required reading in its respective fields. This brilliant collection introduces us to the ways in which the Middle East was a critical staging ground of modernity that led to the emergence of new categories of rule, such as the confession, the minority, and the refugee." Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis, USA"Thematically organised and compellingly written, this collection offers readers the most comprehensive analysis of the political motivations and socio-cultural impacts of Mandate rule in the Middle East. The coverage is extraordinary, ranging from the high politics of Mandate governance to the micro-level of cities and communities thrown into crisis by changes in imperial authority. An indispensable read for anyone wanting insights into life under the Mandates."Martin Thomas, University of Exeter, UK"...whilst this collection will certainly reward specialists, it deserves a much wider readership."James Sidway, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Figures, maps, and tables. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. PrefaceCyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan Foreword: Studying the Mandates: past, present, futureNadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett Introduction Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew ArsanPart I. The Mandate states in the world: international institutions, transnational linkages Introduction to Part I Andrew Arsan1. Globalisation, imperialism, and the perspectives of foreign soldiers in the Middle East duringthe First World WarLeila Fawaz 2. Between communal survival and national aspiration: Armenian Genocide refugees, the League of Nations and the practices of interwar humanitarianism Keith David Watenpaugh 3. Compassion and connections: feeding Beirut and assembling Mandate rule in 1919 Simon Jackson 4. Exporting obligations: evolutionism, normalization, and mandatory anti-alcoholism from Africa to the Middle East (1918-1939) Philippe Bourmaud5. Education for real life: pragmatist pedagogies and American interwar expansion in Iraq Sarah Pursley6. The Mandate system as a style of reasoning: international jurisdiction and the parcelling of imperial sovereignty in petitions from PalestineNatasha Wheatley7. Citizens from afar: Palestinian migrants and the new world order, 1920-1930 Nadim Bawalsa 8. French Mandate counterinsurgency and the repression of the Great Syrian Revolt Michael ProvencePart II. Mandate states: governance, discourses, interests Introduction to Part II Cyrus Schayegh 9. Colonial gender discourse in Iraq: constructing non-citizens Noga Efrati 10. Mapping the cadastre, producing the fellah: technologies and discourses of rule in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon Elizabeth Williams