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Tagged: British Empire

Palestine Potash Limited: Industrial Development in Mandatory Palestine and the Infrastructure of Zionism

By Mona Bieling. The British Mandate for Palestine was officially instated in 1923 by the League of Nations. From its beginning, the Mandate government received applications for the rights to exploit the mineral resources of the Dead Sea and its surrounding areas.

“Researching Modern History Is Inevitably Linked to the Cultural Experience in a Given Country of Research” – An Interview with Rouven Kunstmann

In the series “Feldman Fellows Revisited“ we regularly interview former and current Feldman fellows on aspects of mobility in academia, transregional approaches abroad and where they stand on definitions of...

Suez Canal in 1880

Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region

In an interview with Jadaliyya, Valeska Huber talks about her new book Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond, 1869–1912. The historian’s dissertation deals with...