1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452562103321

Autore

Karsh Efraim

Titolo

Palestine betrayed [[electronic resource] /] / Efraim Karsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-16945-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

956.94/04

Soggetti

HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century

Electronic books.

Palestine History Partition, 1947

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references(p. [274]-334) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land -- Pan-Arab ambitions -- "The most important Arab quisling" -- The road to partition -- Kingdoms are established over dead bodies and skulls -- Fleeing Haifa -- Why don't you stay and fight? -- Jerusalem embattled -- All fall down -- The scramble for Palestine -- Shattered dreams -- A self-inflicted catastrophe -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins, and that of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict, are deeply rooted in Jewish-Arab confrontation and appropriation in Palestine. But the isolated occasions of violence during the British Mandate era (1920-48) suggest that the majority of Palestinian Arabs yearned to live and thrive under peaceful coexistence with the evolving Jewish national enterprise. So what was the real cause of the breakdown in relations between the two communities? In this brave and groundbreaking book, Efraim Karsh tells the story from both the Arab and Jewish perspectives. He argues that from the early 1920's onward, a corrupt and extremist leadership worked toward eliminating the Jewish national revival and protecting its own interests. Karsh has mined many of the Western, Soviet, UN, and Israeli documents declassified over the past decade, as



well as unfamiliar Arab sources, to reveal what happened behind the scenes on both Palestinian and Jewish sides. It is an arresting story of delicate political and diplomatic maneuvering by leading figures-Ben Gurion, Hajj Amin Husseini, Abdel Rahman Azzam, King Abdullah, Bevin, and Truman -over the years leading up to partition, through the slide to war and its enduring consequences. Palestine Betrayed is vital reading for understanding the origin of disputes that remain crucial today.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000771560203316

Autore

MAGGI, Stefano <1966- >

Titolo

Colonialismo e comunicazioni : le strade ferrate nell'Africa italiana (1887-1943) / Stefano Maggi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoi, : Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1996

ISBN

88-8114-416-6

Descrizione fisica

276 p : [16] p di tav., ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Nuove ricerche di storia ; 14

Disciplina

385.312

Soggetti

Trasporti ferroviari - Paesi coloniali - 1887-1943

Collocazione

385.312 MAG 1 (COLL PJE 14)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788670503321

Autore

Crane Susan

Titolo

Animal encounters [[electronic resource] ] : contacts and concepts in medieval Britain / / Susan Crane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-89871-3

0-8122-0630-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

The Middle Ages Series

Classificazione

HH 4061

Disciplina

820.9/3620902

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Human-animal relationships in literature

Anthropomorphism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Note on Citations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Cohabitation -- Chapter 2. Wolf, Man, and Wolf- Man -- Chapter 3. A Bestiary's Taxonomy of Creatures -- Chapter 4. The Noble Hunt as a Ritual Practice -- Chapter 5. Falcon and Princess -- Chapter 6. Knight and Horse -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole year, a scholar finds inspiration for his studies in his cat's perfect focus on killing mice, and a dispossessed knight wins back his heritage only to give it up again in order to save the life of his warhorse. Readers have often taken such encounters to be merely figurative or fanciful, but Susan Crane discovers that these scenes of interaction are firmly grounded in the intimate cohabitation with animals that characterized every medieval milieu from palace to village. The animal encounters of medieval literature reveal their full meaning only when we recover the living animal's place within the written animal. The grip of a certain humanism was strong in medieval



Britain, as it is today: the humanism that conceives animals in diametrical opposition to humankind. Yet medieval writing was far from univocal in this regard. Latin and vernacular works abound in other ways of thinking about animals that invite the saint, the scholar, and the knight to explore how bodies and minds interpenetrate across species lines. Crane brings these other ways of thinking to light in her readings of the beast fable, the hunting treatise, the saint's life, the bestiary, and other genres. Her substantial contribution to the field of animal studies investigates how animals and people interact in culture making, how conceiving the animal is integral to conceiving the human, and how cross-species encounters transform both their animal and their human participants.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826252603321

Autore

Alvord Scott M

Titolo

Contact, community, and connections : current approaches to spanish in multilingual populations / / edited by Gregory L. Thompson, Scott M. Alvord

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wilmington, Delaware ; ; Malaga, Spain : , : Vernon Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-62273-772-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 pages)

Disciplina

468.007

Soggetti

Spanish language - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia