| Edition |
3rd ed., rev. and updated. |
| Description |
xxii, 1270 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1135-1207) and index. |
| Contents |
The rise of Jewish nationalism -- The beginning of the Return -- Herzl and the rise of political Zionism -- The growth of the Yishuv -- The Balfour Declaration -- The establishment of the mandate -- Building the Jewish national home -- The seeds of Arab-Jewish confrontation -- Britain repudiates the Jewish national home -- Palestine in World War II -- The Yishuv repudiates the mandate -- The birth of Israel -- The war of independence -- The growth of the Israeli republic -- Ingathering and the struggle for economic survival -- The search for peace and security -- Sinai and Suez -- Years of economic and social growth -- A decade of political and diplomatic achievement -- Cultural and ideological currents -- The Six-Day War -- Israel as empire -- Israel and world Jewry -- The War of the Day of Judgment -- Aftermath of an earthquake -- The Likud era begins -- An accommodation with Egypt -- Romantic nationalism and Realpolitik -- Revisionism at the apogee -- Israel in Lebanon -- A crisis of Israeli spirit, of diaspora loyalty -- The era of unity governments -- The wages of immobilism -- A tormented road to peace -- A deterioration of the Rabin-Peres legacy -- Ehud Barak's two years -- The bulldozer as prime minister -- The bulldozer as statesman -- Israel faces the Twenty-first Century -- A mottled landscape -- A Middle Eastern hour of decision. |
| Summary |
Voluminous treatise encompassing the history of Israel from the late-nineteenth century to present day. |
| Subject |
Israel -- History.
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Zionism -- History.
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Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.
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Zionism. (OCoLC)fst01184468
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Israel. (OCoLC)fst01204236
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Middle East -- Palestine.
(OCoLC)fst01207534
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Israel (DE-588)4027808-6
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| Chronological Term |
1917-1948
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sachar, Howard Morley, 1928- History of Israel. 3rd ed., rev. and updated. New York : Knopf, 2007 (OCoLC)608364446 |
| ISBN |
9780375711329 (pbk.) |
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0375711325 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
99817032085 |
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