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One Palestine, Complete, Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate
by Segev, Tom
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair to Good Condition/Fair to Good
- ISBN 10
- 0805048480
- ISBN 13
- 9780805048483
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About This Item
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000. First American Edition . Hardcover (Half Cloth). Fair to Good Condition/Fair to Good. Large Octavo. Binding is tight and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers, front and back, have some tiny foxed spots Edges mostly clean with some tiny foxed spots Boards (white) are a little foxed A panoramic and provocative history of life in Palestine during the three strife-torn but romantic decades when Britain ruled and the seeds of today's conflicts were sown
Tom Segev's acclaimed works, 1949 and The Seventh Million, overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now Segev explores the dramatic period before the creation of the state, when Britain ruled over "one Palestine, complete" (as noted in the receipt signed by the High Commissioner) and when its promise to both Jews and Arabs that they would inherit the land set in motion the conflict that haunts the region to this day.
Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials, Segev reconstructs a tumultuous era (1917 to 1948) of limitless possibilities and tragic missteps. He introduces the legendary figures--General Allenby, Lawrence of Arabia, David Ben-Gurion--as well as an array of pioneers, secret agents, diplomats, and fanatics. He tracks the steady advance of Jews and Arabs toward confrontation and with his hallmark originality puts forward a radical new argument: that the British, far from being pro-Arab, as commonly thought, consistently favored the Zionist position, and did so out of the mistaken--and anti-Semitic belief that Jews turned the wheels of history.
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Tom Segev's acclaimed works, 1949 and The Seventh Million, overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now Segev explores the dramatic period before the creation of the state, when Britain ruled over "one Palestine, complete" (as noted in the receipt signed by the High Commissioner) and when its promise to both Jews and Arabs that they would inherit the land set in motion the conflict that haunts the region to this day.
Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials, Segev reconstructs a tumultuous era (1917 to 1948) of limitless possibilities and tragic missteps. He introduces the legendary figures--General Allenby, Lawrence of Arabia, David Ben-Gurion--as well as an array of pioneers, secret agents, diplomats, and fanatics. He tracks the steady advance of Jews and Arabs toward confrontation and with his hallmark originality puts forward a radical new argument: that the British, far from being pro-Arab, as commonly thought, consistently favored the Zionist position, and did so out of the mistaken--and anti-Semitic belief that Jews turned the wheels of history.
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56059
- Title
- One Palestine, Complete, Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate
- Author
- Segev, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Half Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0805048480
- ISBN 13
- 9780805048483
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 612
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- Middle Eastern History Palestine, Arabs, Jews, Israel. Middle East
- X weight
- 1100 kg
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