The Great War and the remaking of Palestine /

"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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and pho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tamārī, Salīm (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2017]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1rzx5z6
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Rafiq Bey's public spectacles
  • Arabs, Turks, and monkeys : the ethnography and cartography of Ottoman Syria
  • The sweet smell of holy sewage : urban planning and the new public sphere in Palestine
  • A scientific expedition to Gallipoli : the Syrian-Palestinian intelligentsia divided
  • Two faces of Palestinian orthodoxy : Hellenism, Arabness, and the Osmenlilik
  • The farcical moment : narratives of revolution and counter-revolution in Nablus
  • Adele Azar's notebook : charity and feminism in WWI
  • Ottoman modernity and the biblical gaze : the war photography of Khalil Raad.