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Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 / Sandra M. Sufian.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sufian, Sandra M. (Sandra Marlene)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malaria--Palestine--History--20th century.
- Malaria.
- Malaria--Israel--History--20th century.
- Zionism--Palestine--History--20th century.
- Zionism.
- Zionism--Israel--History--20th century.
- Malaria--prevention & control.
- History.
- Middle East.
- Colonialism--history.
- Culture.
- History, 20th Century.
- Politics.
- Public Health--history.
- Israel.
- Medical Subjects:
- Malaria--prevention & control.
- Middle East.
- Colonialism--history.
- Culture.
- History, 20th Century.
- Politics.
- Public Health--history.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Archetypal landscape: healing the land and the nation in the Zionist imagination
- Pathological landscape: epidemiology and medical geography of malaria in Palestine
- Potential landscape: swamp drainage projects and the politics of settlement
- Technological landscape: the Jezreel Valley and the Huleh Valley projects
- Perceptual landscape: scientific experimentation, colonial medicine, and the medicalization of Palestine
- Cultural landscape: creating a culture of health through antimalaria education and propaganda
- Contested landscape: Palestinian Arabs and Zionist antimalaria projects
- Ecological landscape: old paradigms, new meanings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-372) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226779355
- 0226779351
- OCLC:
- 123332087
- Online:
- Publisher description
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