PROLOGUE.- 1. OTTOMAN SOCIETY, PALESTINE, AND THE ORIGINS OF
ZIONISM, 1516–1914.- 2. WORLD WAR I, GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE
PEACE SETTLEMENTS: Deciding Palestine’s Fate, 1914–1921.- 3.
PALESTINE BETWEEN THE WARS: Zionism, the Palestinian Arabs,
and the British Mandate, 1920–1939.- 4. WORLD WAR II AND THE
CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, 1939–1949.- 5. THE BEGINNING
OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: Regional Strife and Cold War
Rivalries, 1949–1957.- 6. FROM SUEZ TO THE SIX-DAY WAR,
1957–1967.- 7. LAND, WAR, AND DIPLOMACY: Shifting
Calculations in a Cold War Context, 1967–1976.- 8. LEBANON,
THE WEST BANK, AND THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS: The Palestinian Equation
in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1977–1984.- 9. FROM PARIAH TO
PARTNER: The PLO and the Quest for Peace in Global and Regional
Contexts, 1984–1993
Peace Gambits, Terrorism, and Political Strife, 1984–1987.-
10. ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN/ARAB NEGOTIATIONS AND AGREEMENTS,
1993–1999.- 11. THE OSLO PROCESS UNDONE: Camp David 2000,
Palestinian Rebellion/Factionalism, and Israeli Unilateralism:
Identities in Conflict, 1999–2015.- EPILOGUE.
Charles D. Smith is professor emeritus of Middle East history in the School of Middle East and North African Studies, University of Arizona. He has been awarded numerous grants for research in the Middle East, was a Fulbright scholar in Egypt, and served as a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and as president of the American Research Center in Egypt. He has published scholarly articles on many topics, including Egyptian Islam, Anglo-French imperialism in the Middle East, and nationalism and identity. He is the author of Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt and co-author of The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents, which was awarded the 2013 Undergraduate Education Award by the Middle East Studies Association [MESA]; he received the Mentor of the Year award from MESA in 2012 for his teaching and guidance of students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is currently writing a study of Anglo-French relations and European imperial goals in the Middle East during World War I. Professor Smith’s numerous media appearances include interviews on Bloomberg News, The History Channel, and Fresh Air as well as invited commentaries from England, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and China.
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