The Great War and the remaking of Palestine / Salim Tamari
- Author:
- Tamārī, Salīm
- Published:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date:
- �2017
- Physical Description:
- x, 207 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Introduction : Rafiq Bey's public spectacles -- Arabs, Turks, and monkeys : the ethnography and cartography of Ottoman Syria -- The sweet smell of holy sewage : urban planning and the new public sphere in Palestine -- A scientific expedition to Gallipoli : the Syrian-Palestinian intelligentsia divided -- Two faces of Palestinian orthodoxy : Hellenism, Arabness, and the Osmenlilik -- The farcical moment : narratives of revolution and counter-revolution in Nablus -- Adele Azar's notebook : charity and feminism in WWI -- Ottoman modernity and the biblical gaze : the war photography of Khalil Raad.
- Summary:
- "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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere.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 an affective geographic, cultural, political, and economic space"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN:
- 9780520291256 hardcover alkaline paper
0520291255 hardcover alkaline paper
9780520291263 paperback alkaline paper
0520291263 paperback alkaline paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Class of 1984 Endowed Book Fund; 2017
- Endowment Note:
- Class of 1984 Endowed Book Fund
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