Imagining Zion

Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement

Bibliographic Data

ID19986735
AuthorsS Ilan Troen (corresponding author)
Year2003
Pages368
Publication date2003-05-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueImagining Zion (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherYale University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.12987/yale/9780300094831.001.0001
OpenAlexW4241943092
Open LibraryOL10318789M
ISBN9780300094831
LanguageEN
Citations received25

This book presents the story of how Zionist colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians, and settlers is inextricably linked to multiple contexts: Jewish and Zionist history, the Arab/Jewish conflict, and the diffusion of European ideas to non-European worlds. This book demonstrates how professionals and settlers continually innovated plans for both rural and urban frontiers in response to the competing demands of social and political ideologies and the need to achieve productivity, economic independence, and security in a hostile environment. In the 1930s, security became the primary challenge, shaping and even distorting patterns of growth. Not until the 1993 Oslo Accords, with prospects of compromise and accommodation, did planners again imagine Israel as a normal state, developing like other modern societies. The book concludes that if Palestinian Arabs become reconciled to a Jewish state, Israel will reassign priority to the social and economic development of the country and region

Accommodation · Archaeology · Compromise · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Human settlement · Ideology · Independence (probability theory) · Jewish state · Judaism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Territorial integrity · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · 20th century · Agricultural colonies · Asian · c 1800 to c 1900 · Colonization · Colonization & independence · Economic conditions · General · History - General History · Israel · Jewish studies · Jews · Kibbutzim · Middle East - Israel · Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900 · Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 · Moshavim · Palestine · Religion · Urbanization · Zionism

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