The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29126-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere.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 a geographic, cultural, political, and economic space.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tamari, Salim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichte: Sachbuch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1 • Introduction: Rafiq Bey’s Public Spectacles
2 • Arabs, Turks, and Monkeys: The Ethnography and Cartography of Ottoman Syria
3 • The Sweet Aroma of Holy Sewage: Urban Planning and the New Public Sphere in Palestine
4 • A “Scientific Expedition” to Gallipoli: The Syrian-Palestinian Intelligentsia Divided
5 • Two Faces of Palestinian Orthodoxy: Hellenism, Arabness, and Osmenlilik
6 • A Farcical Moment: Narratives of Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nablus
7 • Adele Azar’s Notebook: Charity and Feminism
8 • Ottoman Modernity and the Biblical Gaze

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.