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• ISBN: 9780062368744
• ISBN: 0062368745
• ISBN: 9780062368751
• Physical Description: xiv, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
• Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-524) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: a grand human story -- Poetry and politics: the Jewish nation seeks a home -- Some spot of a native land -- A conversation, not an ideology: Zionist divisions at the turn of the century -- From a dream to glimmers of reality -- The Balfour declaration: the empire endorses the state -- Nowhere to go, even if they could leave -- The Yishuv resists the British, the Arabs battle partition -- Independence: the state is born -- From dreams of a state to the reality of statehood -- Israel enters the international arena -- Israel confronts the Holocaust -- Six days of war change a country forever -- The burden of occupation -- Yom Kippur War: the "conception" crashes -- Revolution within the revolution: the rise and revenge of Israel's political right -- Taking a page from the Zionists: the rise of Palentinian nationalism -- The peace process stalls -- A Jewish renaissance in the Jewish state -- Conclusion: a century after Balfour--"A national home for the Jewish people."

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Subject:

History, Modern > 20th century.
Jewish-Arab relations > History > 20th century.
Israel > History.
Palestine > History.
Middle East > History.

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Handbooks and manuals.