The Irish Imperial Service Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922-1966 /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gannon, Seán William (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Θέματα: Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; Middle East-History.; Security, International.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of the Middle East.; International Security Studies.

This book explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after 'Southern' Ireland's independence in 1922. Building on a detailed study of the Irish contribution to the policing of the Palestine Mandate, it examines Irish imperial servants' twentieth-century transnat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. 'Our Irish Constabulary': The British Palestine Gendarmerie, 1922-26
• 3. 'A Strong Seasoning of Irishmen': the British Palestine Police, 1926-48
• 4. Palestine 'from the Aspect of Irishness'
• 5. Irish Models and Irishmen: Irish Imperial Policing in the Twentieth Century
• 6. Colonial Service Recruitment in Independent Ireland
• 7. Irishness and Empire in the Twentieth Century
• 8. Conclusion.