Palestinian Historiography: 1900-1948

Key takeaways

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Reading notes

• . Not only did the Franco-British mandates fail to keep their political promises to the Arabs, but the Nabda too seems not to have fulfilled its intellectual promise
• The voice that speaks in their ethnographic works is the voice of the cultural historian striving to show the Semitic roots of the Palestinian peasant as an ancient and continuous occupier of the land. A way of life is being threatened and the balanced prose of Canaan betrays a well-founded anxiety: "The European civilization which is bringing to Palestine many a blessing is eradicating at the same time many a beautiful and sound moral principle."
• The journalists pointed out the economic havoc and social violence engendered by the adamant pro-Zionism of British policy. Little wonder, then, that this frantic commitment to the cause of Palestine should produce a pervasive cultural tone of anguish and disgust, of resentment, resistance, rebellion and death. A "passionate intensity" appears to mar or at least to sour the literature of an entire generation