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Professor Matthew Hughes
Professor of Military History
Marie Jahoda 234
- Email: matthew.hughes@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266872
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Hughes, M. (2023) 'UNSCOP and the Arab–Israeli conflict: the road to partition'. Middle Eastern Studies, 59 (5). pp. 855 - 857. ISSN: 0026-3206 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2023) 'The Architecture of Colonial Control: Britain's Pacification of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939, Matthew Hughes', in Thomas, M. and Curless, G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 161 - 178. ISBN 10: 019886678X. ISBN 13: 9780198866787.
Hughes, M. (2023) '‘How Britain Stirred the Cauldron of Conflict in Palestine’'. BBC History Magazine, 24 (6). pp. 46 - 53. ISSN: 1469-8552 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2023) 'Superpower Rivalry: The United States, the Soviet Union and Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-67'. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, 59 (1). pp. 174 - 176. ISSN: 0026-3206
Hughes, M. (2023) 'The Unknown Enemy: Counterinsurgency and the Illusion of Control'. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY, 42 (2). pp. 416 - 418. ISSN: 2468-3299
Hughes, M. (2022) 'Israeli foreign policy: a people shall not dwell alone'. Middle Eastern Studies, 59 (1). pp. 174 - 176. ISSN: 0026-3206
Hughes, M. (2022) 'The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 by Robert Wooster'. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 52 (4). pp. 620 - 622. ISSN: 0022-1953 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2021) 'Partitioning Palestine: British policymaking at the end of Empire by Penny Sinanoglou, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2019, 251 pp., index. £30.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-226-66578-X'. Journal of Israeli History, 0 (in press). pp. 171 - 174. ISSN: 1353-1042 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2021) 'The British Mandate in Palestine: a centenary volume, 1920–2020'. Middle Eastern Studies, 57 (1). pp. 166 - 167. ISSN: 0026-3206
Hughes, M. (2021) 'Britain's Pacification of Palestine: the British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936-39'. Beirut, Lebanon: Center for Arab Unity Studies. ISSN 13: 9789953829616
Hughes, M. (2020) 'Secret Wars: Covert Conflicts in International Politics'. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, 50 (3). pp. 443 - 445. ISSN: 0022-1953 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2020) 'Book Review: Zionism’s Maritime Revolution: The Yishuv’s Hold on the Land of Israel’s Sea and Shores, 1917–1948'. International Journal of Maritime History, 32 (2). pp. 502 - 504. ISSN: 0843-8714 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2020) 'Lawrence of Arabia on war: the campaign in the desert, 1916–18'. Middle Eastern Studies, 56 (6). pp. 1 - 3. ISSN: 0026-3206 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2020) 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi review – conquest and resistance'. The Guardian. ISSN: 0261-3077 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2019) 'Book review of Graham Jevon's 'Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion''. Bustan, 10 (2). pp. 175 - 181. ISSN: 1878-5301 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2019) 'Women, Violence, and the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-39'. Journal of Military History, 83 (2). pp. 487 - 507. ISSN: 0899-3718 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2019) 'Review of The Imperial Army Project: Britain and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India, 1902–1945, by Douglas E. Delaney'. The English Historical Review, 134 (567). pp. 487 - 489. ISSN: 0013-8266 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2019) 'Review of Plausible crime stories: the legal history of sexual offences in Mandate Palestine'. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, 55 (4). pp. 668 - 670. ISSN: 0026-3206 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2019) ''Britain's Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State and the Arab Revolt, 1936-39''. UK: Cambridge University Press. ISSN 10: 1107103207 ISSN 13: 978-1-107-10320-7
Hughes, M. (2018) 'The war of 1948: representations of Israeli and Palestinian memories and narratives'. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 18 (1). pp. 135 - 136. ISSN: 1472-5886 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2018) 'Birthrate Politics in Zion: Judaism, Nationalism, and Modernity under the British Mandate'. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, 55 (1). pp. 174 - 175. ISSN: 0026-3206 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2018) 'Oriental neighbours: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in mandatory Palestine'. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, 54 (4). pp. 732 - 734. ISSN: 0026-3206 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2018) '‘The Conduct of Operations: Glubb Pasha, the Arab Legion, and the First Arab-Israeli War, 1948-49’'. War in History, 26 (4). pp. 539 - 562. ISSN: 0968-3445 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2018) 'The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire'. MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, 72 (2). pp. 343 - 345. ISSN: 0026-3141 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2018) 'The Month that Changed the World: July 1914 and WWI., edited by Gordon Martel'. The International History Review, 40 (2). pp. 461 - 462. ISSN: 0707-5332 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2018) 'Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 1929'. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 133 (560). pp. 220 - 222. ISSN: 0013-8266 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2018) 'Capital Error?'. BBC World Histories, 8 (2018). pp. 10 - 10.Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2018) 'The Great War and the Middle East: A Strategic Study'. Journal of Military History (US), 82 (1). pp. 272 - 273. ISSN: 0899-3718 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2017) 'Palestine Investigated: The Criminal Investigation Department of the Palestine Police Force, 1920-1948'. MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, 71 (1). pp. 163 - 164. ISSN: 0026-3141 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2017) 'Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess'. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 132 (558). pp. 1390 - 1392. ISSN: 0013-8266 Open Access Link
Harper, G. and Hughes, M. (2017) 'The War with the Ottoman Empire'. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY, 81 (4). pp. 1113 - 1117. ISSN: 0899-3718
Hughes, M. (2017) 'War and Conflict in the Early Modern World, 1500-1700'. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, 48 (2). pp. 242 - 243. ISSN: 0022-1953 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2017) 'The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914-1948'. The Middle East Journal, 71 (3). pp. 491 - 492. ISSN: 0026-3141 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2016) 'Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge'. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY, 80 (4). pp. 1267 - 1269. ISSN: 0899-3718
Hughes, M. (2016) 'Book Review: T. E. Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol'. International Journal of Maritime History, 28 (3). pp. 620 - 621. ISSN: 0843-8714
Hughes, M. (2016) 'Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948: A Tale of Two Cities'. The Middle East Journal, 70 (3). pp. 487 - 489. ISSN: 0026-3141 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. and Farquharson, I. (2016) 'Edmund Allenby', in Showalter, D. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Military History: Oxford bibliographies. Oxford : OUP. ISBN 13: 9780199791279. Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'Land of Progress: Palestine in the Age of Colonial Development, 1905-1948'. Middle East Journal, 69 (1). pp. 155 - 157. ISSN: 1940-3461 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet'. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 130 (546). pp. 1255 - 1256. ISSN: 0013-8266 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'Terror in Galilee: British-Jewish Collaboration and the Special Night Squads in Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1938–39'. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43 (4). pp. 590 - 610. ISSN: 0308-6534 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, 2 edition'. MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, 69 (4). pp. 625 - 627. ISSN: 0026-3141 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'Palestinian Collaboration with the British: the Peace Bands and the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-39'. Journal of Contemporary History, 51 (2). pp. 291 - 315. ISSN: 0022-0094 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'For God and Country? Religious Student-Soldiers in the Israeli Defence Forces'. MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, 51 (3). pp. 511 - 513. ISSN: 0026-3206 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'Demobilised Soldiers and Colonial Control: The British Police in Mandate Palestine and After'. Journal of Modern European History, 13 (2). pp. 268 - 284. ISSN: 1611-8944
Hughes, M. (2015) 'The 1967 ‘Six Day’ Arab-Israeli War'. BBC History Magazine.Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World, 1945-65'. War in History, 22 (1). pp. 123 - 125. ISSN: 1477-0385 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2015) 'Colonial Rebellion and Counterinsurgency in Palestine: British Pacification of the Jewish and Arab Revolts, 1936-48', inA History of Counterinsurgency. Volume 1. From South Africa to Algeria, 1900-1954. Santa Barbara CA and Denver CO : Praeger. , 1. pp. 83 - 104. ISBN 10: 1440804249. ISBN 13: 978-1440804243.
Hughes, M. (2014) 'Armies and State-Building in the Modern Middle East: Politics, Nationalism and Military Reform'. Middle Eastern Studies, 50 (6). pp. 1038 - 1041. ISSN: 1743-7881 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2014) 'Napalm: An American Biography'. War in History, 21 (4). pp. 560 - 562. ISSN: 1477-0385 Open Access Link
Hughes, M. (2014) 'Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies'. Middle Eastern Studies, 50 (4). pp. 682 - 683. ISSN: 1743-7881 Open Access Link