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Land of progress : Palestine in the age of colonial development, 1905-1948 /
A study of Palestine in the early twentieth century that takes a step back from the intricacies of the Arab-Zionist conflict focusing instead on the country's position within the broader history of empire and anti-colonial resistance.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- List of Abbreviations and Currencies
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction
- Starting points
- The first age of colonial development
- Towards a multi-centred view of development
- 1. Ottoman Colonial Development: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean
- Colonial time frames
- i. Extract and export: the growth of port cities in Ottoman Syria
- ii. Palestine in the era of Ottoman development: merchants and intellectuals
- ""Iii. The emergence of Haifa as an Ottoman port city""""iv. The road to the Dead Sea: mineral prospecting in the late Ottoman era""; ""2. Agents of Development: Jews, Arabs, and the Middlemen of Empire""; ""Wartime transformations""; ""i. Colonial development and empire migration after the First World War""; ""ii. Jewish �utility� in the wider colonial world""; ""iii. Images of Jews in the British colonial imagination""; ""iv. Middle men in the �Middle Sea�""; ""3. The �City of the Future�: Haifa, Capital of British Palestine""; ""The gateway to a British Middle East""
- ""I. Haifa as a new exit point for raw materials""""ii. All routes lead to Haifa: railways and air travel""; ""iii. Britain�s agents of development in Haifa: Zionist industry and Jewish workers""; ""iv. Doing business on Kingsway""; ""4. Palestine�s �Undeveloped Estate�: The Exploitation of the Dead Sea""; ""A cursed but precious lake""; ""i. Dead Sea exploration and the compilation of a canon of expertise""; ""ii. �Whoever holds the Dead Sea holds the key to the Middle East�""; ""iii. Bringing the dead to life in the age of colonial development""
- 5. Toxic Waters: Contesting British Development at Haifa and the Dead Seai. Haifa and the Arab struggle against British colonial development
- ii. Contesting British development at the Dead Sea
- iii. Poison in the water: 1948 and the end of British colonial development
- Conclusion: The Legacies of Development
- Bibliography
- Index
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