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Author Krämer, Gudrun.

Title A history of Palestine : from the Ottoman conquest to the founding of the state of Israel / Gudrun Krämer ; translated by Graham Harman and Gudrun Krämer.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  956.94 KRA    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  956.94 K89H    Check Shelf
Description xii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-341) and index.
Contents Names and borders -- The holiness of the "Holy Land" -- Contrasts : Palestine, 1750-1840 -- The age of reform, 1840-1914 -- Evolving nationalisms : Zionism and Arabism, 1880-1914 -- "A land without a people for a people without a land"? : Population, settlement, and cultivation, 1800-1914 -- World War I and the British mandate -- Double standard, or dual obligation -- "Two peoples in one land" -- 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.
Note Translated from the German.
Subject Palestine -- History -- 1799-1917.
Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.
Added Title Geschichte Palästinas. English
ISBN 9780691118970 cloth alkaline paper
0691118973 cloth alkaline paper
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