Israel-Palestine Conflict Contested Histories

Name: Israel-Palestine Conflict Contested Histories
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ISBN: 9781405175388

ISBN-10: 1405175389

ISBN-13: 9781405175388

Edition: 2009

Authors: Neil Caplan

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This is a concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its origins to the present day. The book provides a careful, balanced introduction to this complex dispute and the different parties involved.The volume is organised in three parts. The first sets out the problems of definition, identifying the key players in the conflict and describing the different ways in which both sides of the dispute have presented themselves and their opponents. It explores the extent to which the problem centers on religion, territory and/or national self-determination. It also discusses the role of international politicians, religious leaders and media commentators.The second part of the volume covers the…

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List price: $49.75
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is Associate Teaching Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900--1948.Neil Caplan teaches in the Humanities Department at Vanier College in Montreal. He is author of Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917--1925 and Futile Diplomacy, a multi-volume documentary history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.



List of Maps


Preface


Chronology



Introduction



Problems in Defining the Conflict



Defining the Conflict, Nevertheless



Histories in Contention



Background to 1917: Origins of Conflict



Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate: Entrenching Positions, 1917-1928



Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion, Partition, White Paper, 1929-1939



Shoah, Atzmaut, Nakba: 1939-1949



Israel and the Arab States, 1949-1973



Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians



From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon



From Boycott to Mutual Recognition, 1982-2008



Towards a More Useful Discussion of the Arab-Israeli Conflict



Writing about the Conflict



Confronting the Obstacles


Bibliography


Index