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Remembering and Imagining Palestine : Identity and Nationalism from the Crusades to the Present /

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The book sets out to explore the history of Palestinian nationalism by asking if there were historical antecedents of this identity prior to the twentieth century, and whether this nationalism existed on every social level. It argues that such identity, or a kind of popular nationalism, did exist, a...

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Main Author: Gerber, Haim (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
History.
Asian History.
Cultural History.
History of the Middle East.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Political History.
Social History.
Civilization > History.
Ethnology > Middle East.
Social history.
World politics.
Asia > History.
Middle East > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The book sets out to explore the history of Palestinian nationalism by asking if there were historical antecedents of this identity prior to the twentieth century, and whether this nationalism existed on every social level. It argues that such identity, or a kind of popular nationalism, did exist, aroused by the memory of the Crusades, the Holy Land, and the term Palestine.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 243 pages)
ISBN:9780230583917
DOI:10.1057/9780230583917