Alan Dowty

Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine (eBook, ePUB)

Two Worlds Collide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The historian and expert on Israeli-Palestinian relations offers "a well-written, well-balanced" account of cultural conflicts in the region before WWI (Anita Shapira, author of Israel: A History).

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1922. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, arguing that this historical approach highlights constant clashes between religious and ethnic groups in Palestine.

Dowty demonstrates that, during the 19th century, there was an overwhelming hostility to European foreigners, and that Arab residents viewed new Jewish settlers as European. He also shows that Jewish settlers had tremendous incentive to minimize all obstacles to settlement, including the inconvenient hostility of the existing population. Dowty's thorough research reveals how events that occurred over 125 years ago shaped the implacable conflict that dominates the Middle East today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253038678
• Artikelnr.: 58753313

Autorenporträt

Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of The Jewish State: A Century Later and Israel/Palestine.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Palestine before Zionism
2. Russian Jews before Zionism
3. Two Worlds Collide
4. Unneighborly Relations
5. Truth from the Land of Israel
6. The Arena Expands
7. Battle Lines
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index