Gabriel Polley

Palestine in the Victorian Age (eBook, PDF)

Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in 1917. However, this work argues that the contest over Palestine has its roots deep in the 19th century, with Victorians who first cast the Holy Land as an area to be possessed by empire, then began to devise schemes for its settler colonization. The product of historical research among almost forgotten guidebooks, archives and newspaper clippings, this book presents a previously unwritten chapter of Britain's colonial desire, and reveals how indigenous Palestinians began to react against, or accommodate themselves to, the West's fascination with their ancestral land. From the travellers who tried to overturn Jerusalem's holiest sites, to an uprising sparked by a church bell and a missionary's tragic actions, to one Palestinian's eventful visit to the heart of the British Empire, Palestine in the Victorian Age reveals how the events of the nineteenth century have cast a long shadow over the politics of Palestine/Israel ever since.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755643141
• Artikelnr.: 64239119

Autorenporträt

Gabriel Polley completed his PhD in Palestine studies in the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK in 2020, under the supervision of Professor Ilan Pappe and Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab. He previously studied history of art and literature at the University of East Anglia, UK and Palestine and Arabic studies at Birzeit University, and taught in the occupied West Bank. He currently works in London in the translation and international development sectors. Palestine in the Victorian Age is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One. 'Holy Land on the Brain': Introduction
Chapter Two. 'The Places So Remarkable': Edward Robinson and the Birth of
Biblical Palestine
Chapter Three. 'A Jerusalem of Their Own': Victorian Travellers in a Holy
City
Chapter Four. 'Labourers in the Field of Abraham': The Farm at Kerem
Avraham
Chapter Five. 'Down with the Bell!': The Nablus Uprising of 1856
Chapter Six. 'The Prince of the Samaritans': The Life and Times of Ya'qub
al-Shalabi
Chapter Seven. Laurence Oliphant in The Land of Gilead
Chapter Eight. 'Palestine is Thus Brought Home to England': Conclusion