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Cargando... A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel (edición 2011)por Gudrun Krämer, Gudrun Krämer (Traductor), Graham Harman (Traductor)
Información de la obraHistoria de Palestina : desde la conquista otomana hasta la fundación del Estado de Israel por Gudrun Krämer
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It was like reading a statistics report. Not my cup of tea. ( ) It will come as a surprise to some that we can even talk of a history of Palestine before the state of Israel—after all, much of mainstream media/popular discourse seems constructed atop an unexamined assumption that the territories had little developed culture or meaningful history before Jewish settlement. "Too often," writes Gudrun Kramer, at the outset of her fifth chapter, "the history of late Ottoman Palestine is seen (and told) as a mere prelude to Arab-Jewish conflict in the twentieth century... for Palestine, 1882 can only be taken as a turning point if history is written from its outcome—the foundation of the State of Israel. It makes no sense if the aim is to write a history of the Palestinian economy and society at large." An excellent aim, but has she fully accomplished this? At least one reviewer has pointed out that the first two centuries of Ottoman rule really get no coverage at all here, whie the second two are allocated four chapters out of thirteen. The same reviewer points out that, while Kramer is by no means a denier of the nakba (lit. "catastrophe", the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians), the single most defining event of modern Palestine is given only thirteen pages, and doesn't seriously consider Arabic-language sources, even though many of these have been vindicated as accurate after decades of suppression and denial. I would still recommend this book as a worthwhile starting point for understanding Palestinian history. The book presents the best available population and land-use statistics for various periods, which itself will come as a revelation to some. There are also a series of potential surprises in the unfolding story of the British role—the views of British politicians and civil servants on Palestine and Zionism were anything but uniform, and Kramer's account captures that well. This is a worthwhile first take on this subject, but it is by no means the last word. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Referencias a esta obra en fuentes externas. Wikipedia en inglés (19)El núcleo principal de la obra está constituido por los sucesos y realidades políticas, sociales y culturales del siglo XIX, sobre todo, en sus tres últimas décadas. Es en este último siglo de la presencia turca, el mandato británico, el acuerdo Sykes-Picot, la declaración de Balfour, la inmigración judía, la exclusión del territorio palestino del principio de autodeterminación proclamado en los catorce puntos del presidente Woodrow Wilson cuando se gestan y forman las realidades que determinan la situación actual del conflicto árabe-judío. Si bien se centra en el mundo árabe, se tiene también en cuenta la presencia judía y cristiana en Tierra Santa, como lo demuestra el capítulo que analiza el sentido de Palestina a lo largo de la historia para las tres culturas. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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