Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author LeVine, Mark, 1966-

Title Overthrowing Geography : Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the Struggle for Palestine 1880-1948
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001

Copies

Description 1 online resource (460 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Print version record
Subject City planning -- Israel -- Tel Aviv
Cities and towns -- Israel -- History
Architecture -- Israel
Jews -- Colonization -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
Architecture.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Ethnic relations.
Jews -- Colonization.
Literature.
SUBJECT 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
Subject Israel.
Israel -- Tel Aviv.
Israel -- Tel Aviv -- Jaffa.
Middle East -- Palestine.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520938502
052093850X