Israel-Palestine Conflict - Contested Histories

Informationen zum Autor Neil Caplan holds a PhD in Politics from London School of Economics & Political Science (University of London) and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University and Scholar in Residence at Vanier College! Montreal! Canada. He recently retired after 35 years of teaching in the Humanities Department of Vanier College. He has published numerous articles and seven books! including Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question! 1917-1925 (1978)! Futile Diplomacy! a four-volume study of Arab-Zionist and Arab-Israeli negotiations from 1913 to 1956! and (with Laurie Z. Eisenberg)! Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns! Problems! Possibilities (1998; revised edition 2010). Klappentext The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.* Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical approaches that have undermined academic discussion and political debates* Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers essentially unwinnable* Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates sparked by the dispute* Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining and understanding the conflict! and to go beyond trying to prove who is 'right' and 'wrong'"This volume suggests a fresh and original interpretation to the history of the Arab Israeli conflict. Caplan juggles skillfully and even-handedly between the two narratives! reflecting the parties' own views without embracing the cause of any party."-Joseph Nevo! University of Haifa"An impressive and very valuable work. One could not ask for a better short history of the conflict. Caplan offers readers a study that is extremely well-informed! resolutely fair-minded! and filled with thoughtful insights."-Mark Tessler! University of Michigan Zusammenfassung The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.* Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical approaches that have undermined academic discussion and political debates* Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers essentially unwinnable* Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates sparked by the dispute* Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining and understanding the conflict! and to go beyond trying to prove who is 'right' and 'wrong'"This volume suggests a fresh and original interpretation to the history of the Arab Israeli conflict. Caplan juggles skillfully and even-handedly between the two narratives! reflecting the parties' own views without embracing the cause of any party."-Joseph Nevo! University of Haifa"An impressive and very valuable work. One could not ask for a better short history of the conflict. Caplan offers readers a study that is extremely well-informed! resolutely fair-minded! and filled with thoughtful insights."-Mark Tessler! University of Michigan Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Introduction.1. Problems in Defining the Conflict.2. Defining the Conflict! Nevertheless.Part II Histories in Contention.3. Background to 1917: Origins of Conflict.4. Arabs and Jews under the British Mandate: Entrenching Positions! 1917-1928.5. Collapse of the Mandate: Rebellion! Partition! White Paper! 1929-1939.6. Shoah! Atzma'ut! Nakba: 1939-1949.7. Israel and the Arab States! 1949-1973.8. Back to the Core: Israel and the Palestinians.9. From Camp David to the West Bank to Lebanon.10. From Boycott to Mutual Recognition! 1982-2008.Part III Towards a More Useful Discussion of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.11. Writing about the Conf...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Neil Caplan
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.08.2009
• EAN: 9781405175388
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-7538-8
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 228 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Contesting the Past; Contesting the Past
• Thema: Sachbuch