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Land of progress : Palestine in the age of colonial development, 1905-1948 / Jacob Norris.

By: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199669363 (hbk.)
  • 0199669368 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.9404 NOR 23
LOC classification:
  • DS125 .N66 2013
Contents:
Table of contents Introduction ; 1. Ottoman colonial development: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean ; 2. Agents of development: Jews, Arabs, and the middlemen of empire ; 3. The 'city of the future': Haifa, capital of British Palestine ; 4. Palestine's 'undeveloped estate': the exploitation of the Dead Sea ; 5. Toxic waters: contesting British development at Haifa and the Dead Sea ; Conclusions: the legacies of development ; Bibliography ; Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-227) and index.

Table of contents
Introduction ; 1. Ottoman colonial development: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean ; 2. Agents of development: Jews, Arabs, and the middlemen of empire ; 3. The 'city of the future': Haifa, capital of British Palestine ; 4. Palestine's 'undeveloped estate': the exploitation of the Dead Sea ; 5. Toxic waters: contesting British development at Haifa and the Dead Sea ; Conclusions: the legacies of development ; Bibliography ; Index