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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacob Norris |
ISBN: | 9780191750786 0191750786 9780199669363 0199669368 |
OCLC Number: | 874723504 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
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 |
Responsibility: | Jacob Norris. |
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a must-read book that may or may not convince the reader but will certainly instigate a healthy debate. * Roberto Mazza, Middle Eastern Studies * Jacob Norris should be congratulated for having written an outstanding book, full of welcome revisionist insight and backed up by an impressive breadth and depth of knowledge. * Fredrik Meiton, Arab Studies Quarterly * Land of Progress is a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship emphasizing continuities from the Ottoman period to de-construct the ethno-national conflict intensifying under the auspices of the British Empire. * Max Reibman, Journal of Levantine Studies * Read more...

