A history of Palestine : From the Ottoman conquest to the founding of the state of Israel /

Krämer, Gudrun,‏

A history of Palestine : From the Ottoman conquest to the founding of the state of Israel / Gudrun Krämer ; translated by Graham Harman and Gudrun Krämer. - xii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Names and borders -- The holiness of the "Holy Land" -- Contrasts : Palestine, 1750-1840 -- The age of reform, 1840-1914 -- Evolving nationalisms : Zionism and Arabism, 1880-1914 -- "A land without a people for a people without a land"? : Population, settlement, and cultivation, 1800-1914 -- World War I and the British mandate -- Double standard, or dual obligation -- "Two peoples in one land" -- The Mufti and the Wailing Wall -- From unrest to uprising -- The Arab uprising, 1936-39 -- Triumph and catastrophe : from World War II to the state of Israel.


Text in English ; translated from the original Germany.


9780691118970 (cloth : alk. paper)


Palestine--History--1799-1917.
Palestine--History--1917-1948.

--Reading book

956.94034 / KRA