New under the Sun : Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Netta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonists--Palestine--Attitudes.

Colonists.

Immigrants--Palestine--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

Jews--Colonization--Palestine.

Jews.

Public opinion--Palestine.

Public opinion.

Palestine--Climate--Public opinion.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of--and responses to--Palestine's climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge through a rich archive that draws from medicine and botany, technology and economics, and architecture and planning. As Cohen convincingly argues, this knowledge was not only shaped by Jewish settlers' Eurocentric views but was also indebted to colonial practices and institutions. Zionists' claims to the land were often based on the construction of Jewish settlers as natives, even while this was complicated by their alienated responses to Palestine's climate. New under the Sun offers a highly original environmental lens on the ways in which Zionism's spatial ambitions and racial fantasies transformed the lives of humans and nonhumans in Palestine.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Colonial History of Climate Investigation in Palestine

1. Knowing Climate

Climate Research in Undesired Geographies

Climate Investigation in Palestine

Working Methods in Climate Investigation

2. Climate and the Jewish European Body

Climate, Race and the 'Origin' of the Jewish People

Tropical Medicine: A Healthy Land Makes a Healthy People

Medical Climatology and the Future of Jews in Palestine

3. Warm Palestinian Climate-Cool Jewish Spaces

"The Refrigerating Industries

The Garden Cities of Yesterday

How to say "Climate" in Arabic? Jewish Residential Spaces, 1910s-1920s

Local Heat-International Style

Climate, Roofs, and Building Materials

4. Climate and the Study of Plants

Forestation Against Desiccation

Acclimatization of Foreign Plants: Sources of Inspiration

Irrigation Technologies

Fruit Plantations: A Case Study in Zionist Acclimatization

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Cohen, Netta New under the Sun

ISBN:

9780520397255

OCLC:

1424751073