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The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

By Salim , Tamārī

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780520965102, 9780520291256, 9780520291263, 0520965108
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7619955 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white), maps (black and w
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
History;Palestine -- History -- 20th century;Middl

Description

This rich history of Palestine in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity engaged in a vibrant intellectual, political, and social exchange of ideas and initiatives. Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, this work discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere. New urban sensibilities, schools, monuments, public parks, railways, and roads catalyzed by the Great War and described in detail by the author show a world that challenges the politically driven denial of the existence of Palestine as a geographic, cultural, political, and economic space.

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