Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine

by Assaf Likhovski

One of the major questions facing the world today is the role of law in shaping identity and in balancing tradition with modernity. In an arid corner of the Mediterranean region in the first decades of the twentieth century, Mandate Palestine was confronting these very issues. Assaf Likhovski examines the legal history of Palestine, showing how law and identity interacted in a complex colonial society in which British rulers and Jewish and Arab subjects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469614901
• ISBN13: 9781469614908
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"