The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948

Eugene L. Rogan, Avi Shlaim

Cambridge University Press, Nov 19, 2007 - History - 285 pages

The 1948 war led to the creation of the state of Israel, the fragmentation of Palestine, and to a conflict which has raged across the intervening sixty years. The historical debate likewise continues and these debates are encapsulated in the second edition of The War for Palestine, updated to include chapters on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. In a preface to the new edition, the editors survey the state of scholarship in this contested field. The impact of these debates goes well beyond academia. There is an important link between the state of Arab-Israeli relations and popular attitudes towards the past. A more complex and fair-minded understanding of that past is essential for preserving at least the prospect of reconciliation between Arabs and Israel in the future. The rewriting of the history of 1948 thus remains a practical as well as an academic imperative.

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Contents

• Contributors: vii
• Chronology: ix
• Abbreviations: xi
• Preface to the second edition: xvii

About the author

Eugene L. Rogan is University Lecturer in the Modern History of the Middle East and a Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire (1999) and editor of Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East (2002). He is editor of The Contemporary Middle East series published by Cambridge.

Avi Shlaim is Professor of International Relations and a Fellow of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He was a British Academy Research Professor in 2003-6 and he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. His previous publications include War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History (1995) and The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2000). His biography of King Hussein of Jordan will be published in 2007.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948; Volume 15 of Cambridge Middle East Studies, ISSN 1365-5698
• Editors: Eugene L. Rogan, Avi Shlaim
• Contributors: Eugene L. Rogan, Avi Shlaim
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0521875986, 9780521875981
• Length: 285 pages
• Subjects: History / Middle East / General; History / Modern / 20th Century; History / World; Political Science / General