Authors: James L. Gelvin
ISBN-13: 9780521716529, ISBN-10: 0521716527
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 2007
Edition: 2nd Edition
James L. Gelvin is Professor in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on nationalism and the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (1998), and The Modern Middle East: A History (2004).
An engaging, interpretive, thematically composed introduction to this intractable conflict for students and general readers.
1 | The land and its lure | 1 |
2 | Cultures of nationalism | 14 |
3 | Zionism and the colonization of Palestine | 46 |
4 | World War I and the Palestine mandate | 76 |
5 | From nationalism in Palestine to Palestinian nationalism | 92 |
6 | From the great revolt through the 1948 war | 116 |
7 | Zionism and Palestinian nationalism : a closer look | 144 |
8 | The Arab-Israeli conflict | 165 |
9 | The Palestinian national movement comes of age | 196 |
10 | The rise and fall of the Oslo accord | 228 |