{"product_id":"states-of-separation-laura-robson-9780520292154","title":"States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East","description":"Across the Middle East in the post-World War I era, European strategic moves converged with late Ottoman political practice and a newly emboldened Zionist movement to create an unprecedented push to physically divide ethnic and religious minorities from Arab Muslim majorities. \u003ci\u003eStates of Separation\u003c\/i\u003e tells how the interwar Middle East became a site for internationally sanctioned experiments in ethnic separation enacted through violent strategies of population transfer and ethnic partition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During Britain's and France's interwar occupation of Iraq, Palestine, and Syria, the British and French mandate governments and the League of Nations undertook a series of varied but linked campaigns of ethnic removal and separation targeting the Armenian, Assyrian, and Jewish communities within these countries. Such schemes served simultaneously as a practical method of controlling colonial subjects and as a rationale for imposing a neo-imperial international governance, with long-standing consequences for the region. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Placing the histories of Iraq, Palestine, and Syria within a global context of emerging state systems intent on creating new forms of international authority, in \u003ci\u003eStates of Separation \u003c\/i\u003eLaura Robson sheds new light on the emergence of ethnic separatism in the modern Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Robson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520292154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520292154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2017","brand":"Laura Robson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946702242047,"sku":"9780520292154","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5dc649b8-7150-469f-8777-273d45eb08f0.jpg?v=1681514645","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/states-of-separation-laura-robson-9780520292154","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}