The Palestinian People (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Baruch Kimmerling, Joel S. Migdal
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1834-2002
- Setting: Palestine
- Principal Characters: Haj Amin al-Husseini, Yasser Arafat
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Islam, Twenty-first century, Jews or Jewish life, War, Muslims, Israel or Israelis, Judaism, Middle East, Jerusalem, Jewish-Arab relations, Palestinian Arabs, Zionism, Arabs
- Locales: Palestine
In their preface, the authors immediately reject both the common claim by Palestinians that their history as a “singular people” reaches back to ancient times and the Israeli denial of any such entity before it was created by Zionist successes. Instead, a “self-identified Palestinian people” evolved only in the last two centuries, as a result of European economic and political pressures and of Jewish settlement.
The authors stress, first, grass-roots changes in population distribution; second, the relations between town and country, hill and plain, secular and religious,...
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