Land of progress: Palestine in the age of colonial development, 1905-1948
"Land of progress" brings Palestinian history out of the narrow confines of the Arab-Zionist conflict by restoring Palestine to the wider history of empire in the early twentieth century. It demonstrates the extent to which Palestine was viewed as a crucial sphere of British colonial expansion after World War I and challenges the notion that Britain was merely a hapless arbiter in the emergent Arab-Zionist conflict in Palestine. "Land of progress" analyses Ottoman and British colonial practice …
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- Full title :Land of progress : Palestine in the age of colonial development, 1905-1948 / Jacob Norris.
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"Land of progress" brings Palestinian history out of the narrow confines of the Arab-Zionist conflict by restoring Palestine to the wider history of empire in the early twentieth century. It demonstrates the extent to which Palestine was viewed as a crucial sphere of British colonial expansion after World War I and challenges the notion that Britain was merely a hapless arbiter in the emergent Arab-Zionist conflict in Palestine. "Land of progress" analyses Ottoman and British colonial practice in Palestine in a comparative framework and it demonstrates the extent to which notions of industrial modernity and progress were universally shared among political and merchant classes in Palestine, whether they were Ottoman, British, Arab, or Jewish. Finally the book highlights the importance of specific colonial development projects at the Dead Sea and Haifa. -- from the publisher's website.
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- Publication Date:2013.
- Edition:1. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 241 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199669363, 0199669368
- oclc:ocn847506341
- LC Classification:DS125
- Dewey Decimal:QJ956.94
Table of Contents
1: Ottoman colonial development: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean -- 2: Agents of development: Jews, Arabs, and the middlemen of empire -- 3: The 'city of the future': Haifa, capital of British Palestine -- 4: Palestine's 'undeveloped estate': the exploitation of the Dead Sea -- 5: Toxic waters: contesting British development at Haifa and the Dead Sea -- Conclusions: the legacies of development.
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