Gaza : a history

The Resource Gaza : a history
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Gaza : a history
Title remainder
a history
Statement of responsibility
Jean-Pierre Filiu ; translated by John King
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Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
Summary
"Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed while simultaneously and paradoxically enduring prolonged neglect. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai desert on the one hand and the Mediterranean Sea on the other, Gaza was contested by the Pharaohs, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Fatimids, the Mamluks, the Crusaders, and the Ottomans. Napoleon had to secure it in 1799 to launch his failed campaign on Palestine. In 1917, the British Empire fought for months to conquer Gaza, before establishing its mandate on Palestine. In 1948, 20,000 Palestinians sought refuge in Gaza, a marginal area that neither Israel nor Egypt wanted. Palestinian nationalism grew there, and Gaza has since found itself at the heart of Palestinian history."--Publisher information
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DLC
Dewey number
953/.1
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maps
Index
index present
Language note
Translation of: Histoire de Gaza
LC call number
DS110.G3
LC item number
F5413 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
The series in Comparative politics and international studies

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