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Imagining Zion dreams, designs, and realities in a century of Jewish settlement
Title
Imagining Zion [electronic resource] : dreams, designs, and realities in a century of Jewish settlement / S. Ilan Troen.
ISBN
0300094833
0300128002
9780300094831
9780300128000
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 341 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Summary
This work shows how professionals & settlers have continually innovated plans for both rural & urban frontiers in response to competing demands for social & political ideologies & the need to achieve productivity, economic independence & security in the often hostile environment of Israel/Palestine.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Troen, S. Ilan (Selwyn Ilan), 1940- Imagining Zion. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2003
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.
Contents
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: The Zionist Village""; ""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""; ""PART II: Urban Zion""; ""Chapter 5. Tel Aviv: Vienna on the Mediterranean""; ""Chapter 6. Urban Alternatives: Modern Metropolis, Company Town, and Garden City""; ""Chapter 7. “Imagined Communities�: The Zionist Variation""; ""PART III: Post-Independence Opportunities and Necessities""
""Chapter 8. The Science and Politics of National Development""""Chapter 9. From New Towns to Development Towns""; ""Chapter 10. Israeli Villages: Transforming the Countryside""; ""Chapter 11. Establishing a Capital: Jerusalem, 1948�1967""; ""Chapter 12. Contested Metropolis: Jerusalem After the 1967 War""; ""Epilogue: Israel into the Twenty-First Century""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
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