Enclosure : Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror / Gary Fields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fields, Gary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Middle East.

Land tenure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Gary Fields examines the dispossession of Palestinians from their land-and Israel's rationale for seizing control of Palestinian land-in the contexts of a broad historical analysis of power and space and of an enduring discourse about land improvement. Focusing on the English enclosures (which eradicated access to common land across the English countryside), Amerindian dispossession in colonial America, and Palestinian land loss, Fields shows how exclusionary landscapes have emerged across time and geography. Evidence that the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were used by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israel's current claim that it is uniquely beleaguered. This comparative framework also helps readers in the United States and the United Kingdom understand the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the context of their own histories.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Praise for Enclosure

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. The Contours of Enclosure

Part one. Land into Property: Enclosure, land improvement, and making property on the english landscape

2. Early Modern English Landscapes: Rights of Land Tenure and the Common Fields

3. From Land Reimagined to Landscapes Remade: Th e Discourse of Improvement and Enclosing the Common Fields

Part two. A Landscape of Lines: Colonization and eradication of amerindian landscapes

4. Amerindian Landscapes: Subsistence Systems, Spirit Worlds, and Indigenous Land Tenure

5. Reimagining and Remaking Native Landscapes: Land Improvement and Taking Amerindian Land

Part three. "This Is Our Land": Redeeming the palestinian landscape

6. Palestinian Landscapes: Landholding and Tenancy in Historic Palestine

7. From Imagination to Redemption: Craft ing a Hebrew Landscape on Palestinian Land

8. Enclosure in a Historical Mirror

Notes

References

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:

9780520964921

0520964926

OCLC:

974912825