The Crime of Nationalism

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"Kelly is to be congratulated for a scholarly study that is sure to provoke further debate about the Arab revolt of the 1930s, a pivotal insurgency that demands more scrutiny and about which too little has been written." * Middle East Journal * "Kelly's analysis of the 'Great Revolt' of 1936-39, an Arab rebellion against British colonial policy in the Palestine mandate, emphasises the importance of what he characterises as the 'overlap between the criminological and nationalist dimensions of British imperial discourse', or the ways in which acts of violence on both sides were represented and interpreted." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy * "Kelly's book is a must-read because the crimino-national logic he describes is still in force. It has lost some of its idioms but the lethal potency of its discursive coordinates remain operative. While Kelly's interpretive analytical prism shows that the reality was otherwise, thearchival documents written mostly by colonial administrators and Zionist campaigners bear the imprint of a demonizing narrative that continues to reproduce itself in multiple ways and still haunts the Palestinian national movement. * Journal of Palestine Studies * "Histories of imperialism and nationalism ... will all benefit greatly from this work." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *