| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-504) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: a grand human story -- Poetry and politics: the Jewish nation seeks a home -- Some spot of a native land -- A conversation, not an ideology: Zionist divisions at the turn of the century -- From a dream to glimmers of reality -- The Balfour declaration: the empire endorses the state -- Nowhere to go, even if they could leave -- The Yishuv resists the British, the Arabs battle partition -- Independence: the state is born -- From dreams of a state to the reality of statehood -- Israel enters the international arena -- Israel confronts the Holocaust -- Six days of war change a country forever -- The burden of occupation -- Yom Kippur War: the "conception" crashes -- Revolution within the revolution: the rise and revenge of Israel's political right -- Taking a page from the Zionists: the rise of Palentinian nationalism -- The peace process stalls -- A Jewish renaissance in the Jewish state -- Conclusion: a century after Balfour--"A national home for the Jewish people." |
| Subject |
Israel -- History.
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| ISBN |
0062368745 (hardcover) |
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9780062368744 (hardcover) |
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