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.
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Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.
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Added Title |
Geschichte Palästinas. English
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ISBN |
9780691118970 cloth alkaline paper |
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0691118973 cloth alkaline paper |
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