Introduction
1: Ottoman colonial development: Palestine and the Eastern
Mediterranean
2: Agents of development: Jews, Arabs, and the middlemen of
empire
3: The 'city of the future': Haifa, capital of British
Palestine
4: Palestine's 'undeveloped estate': the exploitation of the Dead
Sea
5: Toxic waters: contesting British development at Haifa and the
Dead Sea
Conclusions: the legacies of development
Bibliography
Index
Jacob Norris is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the
University of Sussex, following his Randall Dillard Research
Fellowship at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. In 2010 he
completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge on 'Ideologies of
Development and the British Mandate in Palestine'. Jacob divides
his time between Palestine/Israel where he carries out most of his
research and Cambridge where he lectures and supervises on the
Middle East
components of the History Faculty's world history papers. His is
currently working on a social history of Bethlehem in the
nineteenth century, documenting the changes that occurred in the
town as a result of
its residents' global interactions during this period.
a must-read book that may or may not convince the reader but will
certainly instigate a healthy debate.
*Roberto Mazza, Middle Eastern Studies*
Jacob Norris should be congratulated for having written an
outstanding book, full of welcome revisionist insight and backed up
by an impressive breadth and depth of knowledge.
*Fredrik Meiton, Arab Studies Quarterly*
Land of Progress is a significant contribution to the growing body
of scholarship emphasizing continuities from the Ottoman period to
de-construct the ethno-national conflict intensifying under the
auspices of the British Empire.
*Max Reibman, Journal of Levantine Studies*
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