A history of Palestine : From the Ottoman conquest to the founding of the state of Israel /

Kr�amer, Gudrun.

A history of Palestine : From the Ottoman conquest to the founding of the state of Israel / Gudrun Kr�amer ; translated by Graham Harman and Gudrun Kr�amer. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008. - xii, 357 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Names and borders -- The holiness of the "Holy Land" -- Contrasts : Palestine, 1750-1840 -- The age of reform, 1840-1914 -- Evolving nationalisms : Zionism and Arabism, 1880-1914 -- "A land without a people for a people without a land"? : Population, settlement, and cultivation, 1800-1914 -- World War I and the British mandate -- Double standard, or dual obligation -- "Two peoples in one land" -- The Mufti and the Wailing Wall -- From unrest to uprising -- The Arab uprising, 1936-39 -- Triumph and catastrophe : from World War II to the state of Israel.

9780691118970 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Palestine--History--1799-1917.
Palestine--History--1917-1948.

DS125 / .K7313 2008

956.94034 / KRA