Research Catalog

Title

The Great War and the remaking of Palestine / Salim Tamari.

Author

Tamārī, Salīm

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Description

x, 207 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere.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

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Palestine > History > 20th century
• Middle East > Palestine

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-194) and index.

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 counterrevolution in Nablus -- Adele Azar's notebook : charity and feminism -- Ottoman modernity and the biblical gaze.

ISBN

• 9780520291256
• 0520291255
• 9780520291263
• 0520291263
• 9780520961502 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017028637

OCLC

• ocn962807295
• SCSB-14400925

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library