H385 The First World War in the Middle East and Jerusalem (I)
- Course Code:
- 154800259
- Status:
- Course Not Running 2012/2013
- Unit value:
- 1
- Taught in:
- Full Year
This course will explore first the political, social and military impact of World War 1 on the Middle East. It will also analyse the main historical controversies arising out of the war and the political and ideological issues which have shaped them.
Secondly, the course will focus in particular on the history of Jerusalem with emphasis on the transitional period from Ottoman to British administration.
Special focus will be placed on politics, ideology and policy making thought specific case studies which are also analysed with primary materials. Each lecture should match a seminar based on discussions of primary sources and/or secondary literature.
Objectives and learning outcomes of the course
By the end of the course students should be able to:
- understand why the Middle East was drawn into WWI and in what ways the outcome of the war reshaped the region’s political development
- understand the impact of the conflict in modern Middle Eastern history
- examine and understand the interests and ambitions of non Middle Eastern belligerents in the region
- to familiarise student with the case study of Jerusalem in the transition from Ottoman to British Rule
- examine issues of continuity and/or discontinuity between the two administrations of the city
- make informed historical judgments upon a complex and contested historical period
- develop and debate historical arguments (both verbally and in writing), to evaluate primary and secondary sources
Suggested reading
- Fromkin, D. A Peace to End All Peace, New York: Holt, 1989.
- Nevakivi, J. Britain, France and the Arab Middle East, London: The Athlone Press, 1969.
- Erickson, E.J., Ordered to Die, Westport, Greenwood Press, 2001.
- McRTague, J.J., British Policy in Palestine 1917-1922, Lanham: Uni. Press of America, 1983.
- Wasserstein, B. The British in Palestine, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
