Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine
- ISBN-10
- 0807830178
- ISBN-13
- 9780807830178
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-12-08
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Assaf Likhovski
Description
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 confront
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