Balfour Declaration - Milestone Documents

Balfour Declaration

( 1917 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Vereté, Mayir. “The Balfour Declaration and Its Makers.” Middle Eastern Studies 6, no. 1 (January 1970): 48–76.

Books

  • Cohen, Michael J. Palestine: Retreat from the Mandate; The Making of British Policy, 1936–45. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1978.
  • Fieldhouse, D. K. Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914–1958. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.
  • Koestler, Arthur. Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine, 1917–1949. London: Macmillan, 1949.
  • Monroe, Elizabeth. Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914–1971. London: Chatto & Windus, 1981.
  • Renton, James. The Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance, 1914–1918. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • Segev, Tom. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the Mandate. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000.
  • Shlaim, Avi. “The Balfour Declaration and Its Consequences.” In Yet More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain, ed. William Roger Louis. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
  • Stein, Leonard. The Balfour Declaration. London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1961.
  • Tomes, Jason. Balfour and Foreign Policy: The International Thought of a Conservative Statesman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Yapp, M. E. The Making of the Modern Near East, 1792–1923. London: Longman, 1987.
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Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem through the Jaffa Gate. (Library of Congress)

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