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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821185303321

Autore

LeVine Mark <1966->

Titolo

Overthrowing geography : Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948 / / Mark LeVine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

1-4175-9334-2

0-520-93850-X

1-59875-537-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (460 p.)

Disciplina

956.94/8

Soggetti

City planning - Israel - Tel Aviv

Cities and towns - Israel - History

Architecture - Israel

Jews - Colonization - Palestine - History - 20th century

Tel Aviv (Israel) History 20th century

Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel) History 20th century

Palestine Ethnic relations

Tel Aviv (Israel) In literature

Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel) 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. 377-416) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Modern Cities, Colonial Spaces, and the Struggle for Modernity in the Eastern Mediterranean; 2 From Cedars to Oranges: A History of the Jaffa-Tel Aviv Region from Antiquity to the Late Ottoman Period; 3 Taming the Sahara: The Birth of Tel Aviv and the Last Years of Ottoman Rule; 4 Crossing the Border: Intercommunal Relations in the Jaffa-Tel Aviv Region during the Mandate Period; 5 A Nation from the Sands? Images of Jaffa and Tel Aviv in Palestinian Arab, Zionist, and Israeli Literature, Poetry, and Prose

6 Ceci N'est Pas Jaffa (This Is Not Jaffa): Architecture, Planning, and the Evolution of National Identities in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1880-19487 Planning to Conquer: The Role of Town Planning in the Expansion of



Tel Aviv, 1921-1948; 8 The New-Old Jaffa: Locating the Urban, the Public, and the Modern in Tel Aviv's Arab Neighborhood; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world, and Tel Aviv, which was born alongside Jaffa and by 1948 had annexed it as well as its surrounding Arab villages.