Bibliograph

The Israel-Palestine conflict, contested histories, Neil Caplan

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Label

The Israel-Palestine conflict, contested histories, Neil Caplan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Main title

The Israel-Palestine conflict

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

795523267

Responsibility statement

Neil Caplan

Series statement

Contesting the past

Sub title

contested histories

Summary

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories offers non-specialist readers insights into the causes and consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A general introduction is followed by a detailed historical overview of the issues that have defined more than a century of political tensions and open hostilities

Table Of Contents

Problems in defining the conflict -- Defining the conflict, nevertheless -- Background to 1917 : origins of the conflict -- Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate : entrenching positions, 1917-1928 -- Collapse of the Mandate : rebellion, partition, White Paper, 1929-1939 -- Shoah, Atzma'ut, Nakba, 1939-1949 -- Israel and the Arab states, 1949-1973 -- Back to the core : Israel and the Palestinians -- From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon -- From boycott to mutual recognition, 1982-2008 -- Writing about the conflict -- Confronting the obstacles

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