A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel

by Gudrun Krämer

Book Overview

It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and recent past. But until now there has been no single volume in English that tells the history of the events--from the Ottoman Empire to the mid-twentieth century--that shaped modern Palestine. The first book of its kind, A History of Palestine offers a richly detailed interpretation of this critical region's evolution. Starting with the prebiblical and biblical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691150079
• ISBN13: 9780691150079
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"