Plowshares Into Swords: From Zionism to Israel

by Arno J. Mayer

Book Overview

This rich, authoritative history chronicles the Zionist Israeli quest from itsorigins in pre-Great War Europe. Plowshares Into Swords traces the development of political Zionism's primal resolve to implant a state for Jews in a Middle East of ever greater strategic importance. In it, Mayer provides newperspectives on key turning points as well as on such enduring issues as the young country's dire need for imperial protection, the oil imperative,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844672352
• ISBN13: 9781844672356
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"