| The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine Contributor(s): Tamari, Salim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520291263 ISBN-13: 9780520291263 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine - History | Military - World War I |
| Dewey: 940.356 |
| LCCN: 2017028637 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere.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 a geographic, cultural, political, and economic space. |