Land, labor, and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shafir, Gershon, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish-Arab relations--History--To 1917--Palestine.

Jewish-Arab relations.

Jews--Colonization--Palestine.

Jews.

Labor Zionism--Palestine.

Labor Zionism.

Land settlement--Palestine.

Land settlement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1996

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the paperback edition

Preface

1 Introduction

2 The framework of dependent development In the Ottoman Empire

3 From land to labor: unequal competition and the "conquest of labor" strategy

4 The failed experiment: "natural workers" from Yemen, 1909-1914

5 Between trade unions and political parties, 1905-1914

6 From "conquest of labor" to "conquest of land": the identity of soldier and settler, 1907-1914

7 The unintended means: cooperative settlement, 1910-1914

8 Conclusion: Israeli nationalism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-520-91741-3

0-585-07927-7

OCLC:

1154871121