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‘This is Palestine’: history and modernity in guidebooks to Mandate Palestine “这是巴勒斯坦”:托管巴勒斯坦指南中的历史与现代

Contemporary Levant Pub Date : 2019-03-26 DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594613

Sarah Irving

引用次数: 4

Incarcerating the insane: debating responsibility for criminal lunatics between prisons, hospitals, and families in British mandate Palestine 监禁精神病患者：在英国托管的巴勒斯坦监狱、医院和家庭之间就精神病罪犯的责任展开辩论

Contemporary Levant Pub Date : 2019-03-21 DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594615

Christopher Wilson

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Constructing modern identity – new patterns of leisure and recreation in mandatory Palestine 建构现代身份——强制巴勒斯坦地区休闲娱乐的新模式

Contemporary Levant Pub Date : 2019-03-19 DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594612

M. Hillel

引用次数: 3

Interview with James Renton 采访詹姆斯·伦顿

Contemporary Levant Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1596568

J. Renton

引用次数: 0

Historiography and Approaches to the British Mandate in Palestine: new questions and frameworks 史学与英国在巴勒斯坦托管的方法：新的问题和框架

Contemporary Levant Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594618

Lauren Banko