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Comrades and Enemies - by Zachary Lockman (Paperback)
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- In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule.
- About the Author: Zachary Lockman is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at New York University.
- 443 Pages
- Political Science, Labor & Industrial Relations
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About the Book
"A unique and welcome perspective which will challenge some and inspire others in the field. . . The scholarship involved, with its fluent familiarity with this extraordinary range of sources--a range which very few historians are capable of using--is remarkable, as is the quality of the prose, and the breadth and maturity of the judgments made. This book will become the standard work in a field where much has been written."--Rashid Khalidi, University of Chicago"An impressive achievement, subtle, nuanced, and yet firmly grounded in a mass of well-weighted and well-interrogated archival documents and memoirs. It is clearly the best book yet written on Mandatory Palestine."--Juan Cole, University of Michigan
Book Synopsis
In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociological literature on Palestine in this period, Comrades and Enemies avoids treating the Arab and Jewish communities as if they developed independently of each other. Instead of focusing on politics, diplomacy, or military history, Lockman draws on detailed archival research in both Arabic and Hebrew, and on interviews with activists, to delve into the country's social, economic, and cultural history, showing how Arab and Jewish societies in Palestine helped to shape each other in significant ways.Comrades and Enemies presents a narrative of Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine that extends and complicates the conventional story of primordial identities, total separation, and unremitting conflict while going beyond both Zionist and Palestinian nationalist mythologies and paradigms of interpretation.
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"A unique and welcome perspective which will challenge some and inspire others in the field. . . The scholarship involved, with its fluent familiarity with this extraordinary range of sources--a range which very few historians are capable of using--is remarkable, as is the quality of the prose, and the breadth and maturity of the judgments made. This book will become the standard work in a field where much has been written."--Rashid Khalidi, University of Chicago"An impressive achievement, subtle, nuanced, and yet firmly grounded in a mass of well-weighted and well-interrogated archival documents and memoirs. It is clearly the best book yet written on Mandatory Palestine."--Juan Cole, University of Michigan
About the Author
Zachary Lockman is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at New York University.Dimensions (Overall): 8.96 Inches (H) x 6.03 Inches (W) x 1.15 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.37 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Labor & Industrial Relations
Genre: Political Science
Number of Pages: 443
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Zachary Lockman
Language: English
Street Date: July 10, 1996
TCIN: 89148006
UPC: 9780520204195
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-5782
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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