Palestine in the Victorian age : colonial encounters in the Holy Land / Gabriel Polley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polley, Gabriel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Palestine--History--19th century.

British.

Palestine--Description and travel--Sources.

Palestine.

Palestine--History--1799-1917--Sources.

Great Britain--Relations--Palestine.

Great Britain.

Palestine--Relations--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2022

Summary:

"'Holy Land on the brain' was how one Victorian traveller in Palestine described her contemporaries. In the last decades of the Ottoman Empire, thousands of Victorians flocked from Britain and America to see Palestine and the biblical sites which they already thought they knew. When their mental image did not precisely resemble the reality they found, many were convinced that it was the reality itself which had to be altered, an attitude which would have - and continues to have - profound implications for the Middle East. This book, the product of the author's historical research among almost forgotten travelogues, guidebooks, archives and newspaper clippings, tells the story of this fascinating period, a previously unwritten chapter in the story of Britain's pursuit of empire in the nineteenth century. Responding not only to the ever-present interest in the Middle East , the work is also in dialogue with contemporary concerns around Britain's colonial past. From the American Bible scholar who started a craze, travellers trying to overturn Jerusalem's holiest sites, to an English farm outside the city's walls, to an uprising sparked by a church bell and a contested tragedy, to one Palestinian's eventful visit to the heart of the British Empire, to the colonies founded by a bizarre eccentric, Holy Land on the Brain: Palestine and the Victorians reveals an often surprising story of Britain's growing entanglement with Palestine years before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's occupation of the region "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter One. 'Holy Land on the Brain': Introduction Chapter Two. 'The Places So Remarkable': Edward Robinson and the Birth of Biblical Palestine Chapter Three. 'A Jerusalem of Their Own': Victorian Travellers in a Holy City Chapter Four. 'Labourers in the Field of Abraham': The Farm at Kerem Avraham Chapter Five. 'Down with the Bell!': The Nablus Uprising of 1856 Chapter Six. 'The Prince of the Samaritans': The Life and Times of Ya'qub al-Shalabi Chapter Seven. Laurence Oliphant in The Land of Gilead Chapter Eight. 'Palestine is Thus Brought Home to England': Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755643165

075564316X

0-7556-4314-3

OCLC:

1295018783