The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
Ilan Pappe
List price £19.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781784782016
- Published:
- 05 Jan 2016
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Dimensions:
- 288 pages - 196 x 130 x 30mm
- Number of Illustrations:
- none
- Availability:
- Available
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In this groundbreaking work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country's education system, media, and cinema. In particular, Pappe examines the way successive generations of historians have framed the 1948 conflict as a liberation campaign, creating a foundation myth that went unquestioned in Israeli society until the 1990s. The Idea of Israel is a powerful and urgent intervention in the war of ideas concerning the past, and the future, of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
A major new history of Zionism and Israel, by the renowned author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.