America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood

by Lawrence Davidson

Book Overview

In a revisionist look at the history of U.S. relations with Palestine, Lawrence Davidson offers a critical study of the evolution of American popular and governmental perceptions of Zionism and Palestine, from the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to the founding of Israel in 1948. Showing how a powerful and determined interest group turned the U.S. political system to its advantage and shaped foreign policy, America's Palestine is an important study of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813028450
• ISBN13: 9780813028453
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"