New Under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine
| AUTHOR | Cohen, Netta |
| PUBLISHER | University of California Press (04/02/2024) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of--and responses to--Palestine's climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge through a rich archive that draws from medicine and botany, technology and economics, and architecture and planning. As Cohen convincingly argues, this knowledge was not only shaped by Jewish settlers' Eurocentric views but was also indebted to colonial practices and institutions. Zionists' claims to the land were often based on the construction of Jewish settlers as natives, even while this was complicated by their alienated responses to Palestine's climate. New under the Sun offers a highly original environmental lens on the ways in which Zionism's spatial ambitions and racial fantasies transformed the lives of humans and nonhumans in Palestine.
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ISBN-13:
9780520397231
ISBN-10:
0520397231
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
228
Carton Quantity:
40
Product Dimensions:
6.00 x 0.52 x 9.00 inches
Weight:
0.75 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Price on Product,
Maps,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine
History | Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)
History | Environmental - General
Dewey Decimal:
320.540
Library of Congress Control Number:
2023039659
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"A groundbreaking cultural history."--Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev "In this innovative work, Netta Cohen depicts Zionism's debt to and departure from Western colonial science. She offers a provocative and multilayered analysis of the relationship between climate, health, settler colonialism, and Jewish settlement in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century."--Derek Penslar, Harvard University
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New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of--and responses to--Palestine's climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge through a rich archive that draws from medicine and botany, technology and economics, and architecture and planning. As Cohen convincingly argues, this knowledge was not only shaped by Jewish settlers' Eurocentric views but was also indebted to colonial practices and institutions. Zionists' claims to the land were often based on the construction of Jewish settlers as natives, even while this was complicated by their alienated responses to Palestine's climate. New under the Sun offers a highly original environmental lens on the ways in which Zionism's spatial ambitions and racial fantasies transformed the lives of humans and nonhumans in Palestine.
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