Edition |
First Grove Atlantic hardback edition. |
Description |
xxi, 605 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-562) and index. |
Summary |
Enemies and Neighbors is a big, textured, and, crucially, balanced account of over 100 years of the Israel-Palestine conflict, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (the famous pledge made by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 expressing sympathy for a national Jewish home in Palestine). 2017 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War in June 1967, during which Israel seized its current borders. Much of the existing literature on the Israel-Palestine conflict focuses on the era post-Israeli independence (starting in 1948), has a clear bias, and/or comes at the subject from an academic angle. This is a major, engagingly written trade history covering the entire arc of the conflict up to the present, and Black has done an extraordinary job of telling it from both sides. |
Subject |
Jewish-Arab relations -- History.
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Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government.
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Arab-Israeli conflict. (OCoLC)fst00812220
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Jewish-Arab relations. (OCoLC)fst00983106
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Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01051620
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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ISBN |
9780802127037 (hardcover) |
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0802127037 (hardcover) |
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