The Idea Of Israel: A History Of Power And Knowledge
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781844678563 (1844678563)
Publish date: February 4th 2014
Publisher: Verso
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I found this a very dense and demanding book but rewarding. It is not so much a history of Israel as a history of Israeli culture and therefore also of Zionism, an ideological system which motivated and enabled both religious and secular Jews, since the 1880s, to set about colonising a large part o...