The Social and Cultural History of Palestine : : Essays in Honour of Salim Tamari / / ed. by Sarah Irving.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Abusaada, Nadi,; Halevy, Dotan,; Irving, Sarah,; Khalaf, Amin,; Morkus-Makhoul, Rawda,; Nassar, Issam,; Sandal-Wilson, Chris,; Summerer, Karène Sanchez,; Yazbak, Mahmoud,; Zananiri, Sary,
• HerausgeberIn: Irving, Sarah ,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 28 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables 29 black and white illustrations

Explores the social and cultural landscape of Palestine under Late Ottoman and British ruleHighlights the rise of social and cultural history within scholarly research on PalestineDiscusses issues of gender, class, race and empire, set against the background of the diverse Palestinian society of the first half of the 20th centuryDraws on a wide range of archival materials in Arabic, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, French and other languages, many of them rarely examined by researchersBrings together a multigenerational selection of researchers in the field, from senior figures in Palestinian history to exciting newcomersOver the past decade, histories of Late Ottoman and especially Mandate Palestine have moved away from the political framing of the Arab-Israeli conflict to consider questions of social and cultural history, as well as, increasingly, adopting new frameworks such as environmental and medical history. One of the most important voices in this movement, as a scholar and as a mentor of others’ work, has been Salim Tamari. This volume brings together both new and established researchers on Late Ottoman and Mandate-era social and cultural history, many of them Palestinian, to showcase the kind of work inspired by Tamari’s legacy, to reflect on the development of these themes in the historiographical context, and to contribute to the decolonisation of Palestinian history. The contents range from considerations of tourist souvenirs and artisanal manufacture to the social history of Gaza, and from debates around cosmopolitanism in colonial Palestine to the socio-economic roles of Palestinian women.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Social and Cultural in the Historiography of Mandate Palestine -- Chapter 1 Jaffa before the Nakba: Palestine’s Thriving City, 1799–1948 -- Chapter 2 To ‘Strengthen Mediterranean Resistance’? Albert Antebi and the Porous Boundaries of Cultural Identification in Ottoman Jerusalem, 1896–1919 -- Chapter 3 Tales out of School: Palestinian Students in a Jewish Institution, 1870–1937 -- Chapter 4 Costumes and the Image: Authenticity, Identity and Photography in Palestine -- Chapter 5 ‘The Reconstruction of Palestine’: Geographical Imaginaries after World War I -- Chapter 6 Decolonising the Social History of Rural Palestinian Women: The Economic Activity of Rural Women in Galilee during the British Mandate -- Chapter 7 Ethnographies of Madness: Père Antonin Jaussen, Shaykh Sa’ad al-Din and the Management of Mental Illness in Mandate-era Nablus -- Chapter 8 ‘Irrespective of Community or Creed’: Charity, Solidarity and the 1927 Jericho Earthquake -- Chapter 9 Photographing the Palestinian Nakba: Rethinking the Role of Photography in Historical Writing -- Index