The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
by Rashid Khalidi
One hundred years of colonial war. The historian who names it.
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you want to understand the history of Palestine and Israel from a scholarly Palestinian perspective grounded in documented evidence rather than competing narratives
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Khalidi — a Palestinian American historian whose family has lived in Jerusalem for centuries — frames the history of Palestine since 1917 as a colonial war waged in six distinct campaigns against a native population by a settler movement backed by successive imperial powers: Britain first, then the United States. He is scrupulous with evidence, exact with dates, and completely clear about what he is arguing. The most rigorous single-volume history of the Palestinian experience ever written in English. A dispatch from inside a history that has been systematically misrepresented and a corrective that cannot be dismissed as polemic.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Palestine • Middle East
- Voice
- Written by a Palestinian author
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