Imagining Zion : dreams, designs, and realities in a century of Jewish settlement / S. Ilan Troen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troen, S. Ilan (Selwyn Ilan), 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism--Palestine--History.

Zionism.

Jews--Colonization--Palestine--History.

Jews.

Agricultural colonies--Palestine--History.

Agricultural colonies.

Jews--Palestine--Economic conditions--19th century.

Jews--Israel--Economic conditions--20th century.

Moshavim--History.

Moshavim.

Kibbutzim--History.

Kibbutzim.

Urbanization--Israel--History.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 341 p.) ) ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880's to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians, and settlers is inextricably linked to multiple contexts: Jewish and Zionist history, the Arab/Jewish conflict, and the diffusion of European ideas to non-European worlds. S. Ilan Troen demonstrates how professionals and settlers continually innovated plans for both rural and urban frontiers in response to the competing demands of social and political ideologies and the need to achieve productivity, economic independence, and security in a hostile environment. In the 1930's, security became the primary challenge, shaping and even distorting patterns of growth. Not until the 1993 Oslo Accords, with prospects of compromise and accommodation, did planners again imagine Israel as a normal state, developing like other modern societies. Troen concludes that if Palestinian Arabs become reconciled to a Jewish state, Israel will reassign priority to the social and economic development of the country and region.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Covenantal Communities

Chapter 2. Trial and Error in the Village Economy

Chapter 3. The Economic Basis for Arab/Jewish Accommodation

Chapter 4. The Village as Military Outpost

Chapter 5. Tel Aviv

Chapter 6. Urban Alternatives

Chapter 7. "Imagined Communities"

Chapter 8. The Science and Politics of National Development

Chapter 9. From New Towns to Development Towns

Chapter 10. Israeli Villages

Chapter 11. Establishing a Capital

Chapter 12. Contested Metropolis

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-324) and index.

ISBN:

9786611729905

9781281729903

1281729906

9780300128000

0300128002

OCLC:

1013937330