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Land, labor, and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914 Gershon Shafir

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.Description: xxv, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780520204010
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.5694/09/034
Online resources: Summary: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 325.569409034 SH LA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0053165

Previously published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989, in series: Cambridge Middle East library ; 20. With a new preface.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index.

Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.

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