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The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine
Salim Tamari
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Description for The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine
Paperback. Tells the history of Palestine during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire, which reveals the nation emerging as a cultural entity. Through autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, this book discerns a particular bourgeois Palestinian public sphere, self-consciously modern and inexorably secular. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FBH; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere.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 ... Read more
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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere.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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520291263
SKU
V9780520291263
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About Salim Tamari
Salim Tamari is Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Palestine, Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, and the author of Mountain against the Sea and Year of the Locust.
Reviews for The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine
Tamari offers a compelling and entertaining investigation of Palestinian society before and during World War I through eight essays investigating what he terms 'the remaking of Palestine.'
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