The Great War and the remaking of Palestine /
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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies and unpublished maps and photos, The...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | 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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere.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 Salim Tamari show a world that challenges the politically driven denial of the existence of Palestine as an affective geographic, cultural, political and economic space. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520291256 0520291255 9780520291263 0520291263 |