Imagining Zion [[electronic resource] ] : dreams, designs, and realities in a century of Jewish settlement / / S. Ilan Troen

• Autore: Troen S. Ilan (Selwyn Ilan), <1940->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xv, 341 p.) ) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 956.9405
• Soggetto topico: Zionism - Palestine - History; Jews - Colonization - Palestine - History; Agricultural colonies - Palestine - History; Jews - Palestine - Economic conditions - 19th century; Jews - Israel - Economic conditions - 20th century; Moshavim - History; Kibbutzim - History; Urbanization - Israel - History
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-324) and index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-324) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Covenantal Communities -- Chapter 2. Trial and Error in the Village Economy -- Chapter 3. The Economic Basis for Arab/Jewish Accommodation -- Chapter 4. The Village as Military Outpost -- Chapter 5. Tel Aviv -- Chapter 6. Urban Alternatives -- Chapter 7. "Imagined Communities" -- Chapter 8. The Science and Politics of National Development -- Chapter 9. From New Towns to Development Towns -- Chapter 10. Israeli Villages -- Chapter 11. Establishing a Capital -- Chapter 12. Contested Metropolis -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880's to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians, and settlers is inextricably linked to multiple contexts: Jewish and Zionist history, the Arab/Jewish conflict, and the diffusion of European ideas to non-European worlds. S. Ilan Troen demonstrates how professionals and settlers continually innovated plans for both rural and urban frontiers in response to the competing demands of social and political ideologies and the need to achieve productivity, economic independence, and security in a hostile environment. In the 1930's, security became the primary challenge, shaping and even distorting patterns of growth. Not until the 1993 Oslo Accords, with prospects of compromise and accommodation, did planners again imagine Israel as a normal state, developing like other modern societies. Troen concludes that if Palestinian Arabs become reconciled to a Jewish state, Israel will reassign priority to the social and economic development of the country and region.
• Titolo autorizzato: Imagining Zion
• ISBN: 1-281-72990-6; 9786611729905; 0-300-12800-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818505803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II