History of Palestine From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel

Name: History of Palestine From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel
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ISBN: 9780691150079

ISBN-10: 0691150079

ISBN-13: 9780691150079

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gudrun Krï¿½mer, Graham Harman, Gudrun Kramer

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It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century--that shaped modern Palestine. The first book of its kind,A History of Palestineoffers a richly detailed interpretation of this critical region's evolution. Starting with the prebiblical and biblical roots of Palestine, noted historian Gudrun Krämer examines the meanings ascribed to the land in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions. Paying special attention to social and economic factors, she examines the gradual transformation of…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface


Abbreviations



Names and Borders



The Holiness of the ï¿½Holy Landï¿½



Contrasts: Palestine, 1750-1840



The Age of Reform, 1840-1914



Evolving Nationalisms: Zionism and Arabism, 1880-1914



ï¿½A Land without a People for a People without a Landï¿½? Population, Settlement, and Cultivation, 1800-1914



World War I and the British Mandate



Double Standard, or Dual Obligation



ï¿½Two Peoples in One Landï¿½



The Mufti and the Wailing Wall



From Unrest to Uprising



The Arab Uprising, 1936-39



Triumph and Catastrophe: From World War II to the State of Israel


Bibliography


Index