Land of progress : Palestine in the age of colonial development, 1905-1948 / Jacob Norris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norris, Jacob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish-Arab relations--History--1917-1948.

Jewish-Arab relations.

Palestine--History--1929-1948.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of Palestine in the early twentieth century that takes a step back from the intricacies of the Arab-Zionist conflict focusing instead on the country's position within the broader history of empire and anti-colonial resistance.

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; List of Abbreviations and Currencies; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction; Starting points; The first age of colonial development; Towards a multi-centred view of development; 1. Ottoman Colonial Development: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean; Colonial time frames; i. Extract and export: the growth of port cities in Ottoman Syria; ii. Palestine in the era of Ottoman development: merchants and intellectuals; iii. The emergence of Haifa as an Ottoman port city

iv. The road to the Dead Sea: mineral prospecting in the late Ottoman era2. Agents of Development: Jews, Arabs, and the Middlemen of Empire; Wartime transformations; i. Colonial development and empire migration after the First World War; ii. Jewish 'utility' in the wider colonial world; iii. Images of Jews in the British colonial imagination; iv. Middle men in the 'Middle Sea'; 3. The 'City of the Future': Haifa, Capital of British Palestine; The gateway to a British Middle East; i. Haifa as a new exit point for raw materials; ii. All routes lead to Haifa: railways and air travel

iii. Britain's agents of development in Haifa: Zionist industry and Jewish workersiv. Doing business on Kingsway; 4. Palestine's 'Undeveloped Estate': The Exploitation of the Dead Sea; A cursed but precious lake; i. Dead Sea exploration and the compilation of a canon of expertise; ii. 'Whoever holds the Dead Sea holds the key to the Middle East'; iii. Bringing the dead to life in the age of colonial development; 5. Toxic Waters: Contesting British Development at Haifa and the Dead Sea; i. Haifa and the Arab struggle against British colonial development

ii. Contesting British development at the Dead Seaiii. Poison in the water: 1948 and the end of British colonial development; Conclusion: The Legacies of Development; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 24, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-164811-6

1-299-44190-4

OCLC:

922972060