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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tamari, Salim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestine--History--20th century.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere.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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Rafiq Bey's Public Spectacles

2. Arabs, Turks, and Monkeys: The Ethnography and Cartography of Ottoman Syria

3. The Sweet Aroma of Holy Sewage: Urban Planning and the New Public Sphere in Palestine

4. A "Scientific Expedition" to Gallipoli: The Syrian-Palestinian Intelligentsia Divided

5. Two Faces of Palestinian Orthodoxy: Hellenism, Arabness, and Osmenlilik

6. A Farcical Moment: Narratives of Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nablus

7. Adele Azar's Notebook: Charity and Feminism

8. Ottoman Modernity and the Biblical Gaze

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965102

0520965108

OCLC:

992437870