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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450784303321

Autore

Ṣāyigh Yazīd

Titolo

Armed struggle and the search for state [[electronic resource] ] : the Palestinian national movement, 1949-1993 / / Yezid Sayigh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-280-84691-7

0-19-151354-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (998 p.)

Disciplina

320.54095694

956.9405

Soggetti

Palestinian Arabs - Politics and government

Nationalism - Palestine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington, D.C."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [843]-912) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Glossary of Arabic Terms; Maps; Genealogical Diagram; Introduction: A Historical Framework; I. Searching for Palestine, 1949-1966; II. Years of Revolution, 1967-1972; III. The State-in-Exile, 1973-1982; IV. Squaring the Circle: Statehood into Autonomy, 1983-1993; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on unprecedented access to PLO archives and personnel, this groundbreaking new study represents the definitive history of the Palestinian national movement. Spanning the 45 years from the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993, it sheds radical new light on the history of the Middle East in the last half of the twentieth century. - ;This masterly new work spans an entire epoch in the history of the contemporary Palestinian national movement, from the establishment of Israel in mandate Palestine in 1948, to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993. Contrary to