A History of Palestine

by Kramer, Gudrun

• ISBN13: 9780691118970
• ISBN10: 0691118973
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-14
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century--that shaped modern Palestine. The first book of its kind,A History of Palestineoffers a richly detailed interpretation of this critical region's evolution. Starting with the prebiblical and biblical roots of Palestine, noted historian Gudrun Krämer examines the meanings ascribed to the land in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions. Paying special attention to social and economic factors, she examines the gradual transformation of Palestine, following the history of the region through the Egyptian occupation of the mid-nineteenth century, the Ottoman reform era, and the British Mandate up to the founding of Israel in 1948. Focusing on the interactions of Arabs and Jews,A History of Palestinetells how these connections affected the cultural and political evolution of each community and Palestine as a whole.

Author Biography

Gudrun Kramer is professor of Islamic studies at Free University Berlin and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Her books include "A History of Islam" and "The Jews in Modern Egypt".

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Names and Borders	p. 1
The Holiness of the "Holy Land"	p. 18
Contrasts: Palestine, 1750-1840	p. 37
The Age of Reform, 1840-1914	p. 71
Evolving Nationalisms: Zionism and Arabism, 1880-1914	p. 101
"A Land without a People for a People without a Land"? Population, Settlement, and Cultivation, 1800-1914	p. 128
World War I and the British Mandate	p. 139
Double Standard, or Dual Obligation	p. 164
"Two Peoples in One Land"	p. 188
The Mufti and the Wailing Wall	p. 216
From Unrest to Uprising	p. 238
The Arab Uprising, 1936-39	p. 264
Triumph and Catastrophe: From World War II to the State of Israel	p. 296
Bibliography	p. 325
Index	p. 343
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