Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine - Two Worlds Collide

1. This book offers a serious and wide-ranging history of an intractable conflict. It reassesses the Arab-Israeli conflict by looking back to events in the 19th century and the earliest waves settlers.
2. It uses a variety of primary sources from the settlers and their neighbors to show on a grassroots and human level how conflict developed, and it also gives new interpretations of the early attempts to define and analyze the conflict.
3. Author Alan Dowty is a senior political scientist who is well-known for his explorations of the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

List of contents

Preface

1. Palestine before Zionism

2. Russian Jews before Zionism

3. Two Worlds Collide

4. Unneighborly Relations

5. Truth from the Land of Israel

6. The Arena Expands

7. Battle Lines

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Alan Dowty is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of The Jewish State: A Century Later and Israel/Palestine.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Dowty
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780253057259
• ISBN: 978-0-253-05725-9
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Perspectives on Israel Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous