The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

Download or read book The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine written by Salim Tamari and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Employing nuanced ethnography, rare autobiographies, and unpublished maps and photos, The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine discerns a self-consciously modern and secular Palestinian public sphere. New urban sensibilities, schools, monuments, public parks, railways, and roads catalyzed by the Great War and described in detail by Salim Tamari show a world that challenges the politically driven denial of the existence of Palestine as a geographic, cultural, political, and economic space.