Gabriel Piterberg:The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel
- Erstausgabe 2014, ISBN: 9781844672608
Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe
The Monacelli Press, 2014. Hardcover. New. New oversized casewrapped hardcover. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes and full color photographs. 168 p… Mehr…
The Monacelli Press, 2014. Hardcover. New. New oversized casewrapped hardcover. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes and full color photographs. 168 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "A beautifully designed introduction to art history by way of artworks that feature the mousefrom the ancient world to drawings by Picasso, Disney, and Art Spiegelman. Across centuries and civilizations, artists have used the mousethe planet's most common mammal after usto illustrate our myths and beliefs. Mice have appeared as Japanese symbols of good luck or medieval emblems of evil, in Arab fables, Russian political satire and Nazi propaganda, as scientific tools and to help us challenge the way we see nature. With more than 80 rarely reproduced worksincluding paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and Gustav Klimt, a silkscreen by Andy Warhol, a print by Hokusai, a photograph by André Kertész, a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg, a video installation by Bruce Nauman, a performance by Joseph Beuys, and many moreLorna Owen has created an engaging presentation of an extraordinary range. The pieces, which represent every period of visual art, are accompanied by Owen's intriguing text about the story behind each work. She has combined her passion for art and her empathy for the unsung archetype of the animal kingdom to explain not only how or why the artist came to use the mouse as a subject, but how the art, in the end, reveals more about us than it could ever reveal about this humble creature., The Monacelli Press, 2014, 6, Anti Defamation League, 1983. spiral bound. Very good. 119 pages, Anti Defamation League, 1983, 3, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, DJ wrapped in mylar, not price clipped, binding very good, pages some yellow highlighting, 327 pages, indexed, couple of pages dog earred. near fine/near fine. The events of September 11, 2001, forever changed the world as we knew it. In their wake, the quest for international order has prompted a reshuffling of global aims and priorities. In a fresh approach, Gilles Kepel focuses on the Middle East as a nexus of international disorder and decodes the complex language of war, propaganda, and terrorism that holds the region in its thrall. The breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in 2000 was the first turn in a downward spiral of violence and retribution. Meanwhile, a neo-conservative revolution in Washington unsettled U.S. Mideast policy, which traditionally rested on the twin pillars of Israeli security and access to Gulf oil. In Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, a transformation of the radical Islamist doctrine of Bin Laden and Zawahiri relocated the arena of terrorist action from Muslim lands to the West; Islamist radicals proclaimed jihad against their enemies worldwide. Kepel examines the impact of global terrorism and the ensuing military operations to stem its tide. He questions the United States' ability to address the Middle East challenge with Cold War rhetoric, while revealing the fault lines in terrorist ideology and tactics. Finally, he proposes the way out of the Middle East quagmire that triangulates the interests of Islamists, the West, and the Arab and Muslim ruling elites. Kepel delineates the conditions for the acceptance of Israel, for the democratization of Islamist and Arab societies, and for winning the minds and hearts of Muslims in the West. DR4., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004, 4, London: Harper Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0007203047 . FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 1. Dark blue boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. The paper is uniformly cream, otherwise there are NO Inscriptions or other Marks. (xxv) + 380 pp. Illustrated with b/w maps and photographs. Notes and references; Index. Overall, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'As New' copy. "Lucid and masterly biography of the Mediterranean during a time of war, from Mussolini's audacious bid for conquest to the creation of Israel and the start of the Cold War. The Bitter Sea is a fascinating interpretation of world affairs and a significant contribution to twentieth century history. With incisive strategic and political analysis, Simon Ball demonstrates in this dramatic narrative how the Mediterranean Sea lay at the heart of recent world history. The British conceived the Mediterranean as the world's great thoroughfare, from Gibraltar in the west to the Suez Canal in the east. For Mussolini, the Mediterranean was 'Mare Nostrum', the stage for his violent vision of conquest. The French commanded an impressive navy and key ports. The Nazis found willing allies in the lands that encircled the sea. The Americans imagined a new kind of empire in the Mediterranean. The blue waters of the Mediterranean, and its 'golden pavement' of surrounding nations, witnessed a brutal conflict of unlikely foes and opportunistic alliances. Spaniard fought Spaniard, German fought Italian, American confronted Arab and Briton killed Frenchman. The Mediterranean struggle was a modern, high intensity war - fought on land, sea and air. Its titanic battles stretched from Malaga to Beirut, from El Alamein to Anzio. It was also a war of propaganda, deception, insurgency and terrorism, where the lines of battle were not clearly defined. As the author demonstrates in sparkling prose, the Mediterranean was indeed the 'bitter sea'. Based on the most up-to-date research, including newly-released intelligence dossiers, Simon Ball's compelling account untangles the plans and actions of the war's most powerful decision makers, famous and forgotten. The result is exceptionally readable and original. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall ., Harper Press, 2009, 5, London: Longman Group Ltd., 1974. First Edition. Hardback. Very good cloth copy in a good, slightly edge-nicked dw (with small cut/tear to front) . Otherwise particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 320 pages; Description: xiv, 320 p. 1 illus. 24 cm. Subjects: Jewish-Arab relations. Propaganda, Egyptian. Public opinion. Arab countries --Politics and government --1945-., London: Longman Group Ltd., 1974, 0, Like new. Tight and no marks., Peter Lang Publishing, 1984, 5, MINISTERIO DE CULTURA (EGIPTO), 1974. Rústica. Usado., MINISTERIO DE CULTURA (EGIPTO), 1974, 0, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Good. Alice Barber Stephens & N. C. Wyeth. 5.75"x8.5". 225 pages. Arabic date on title page. X-library w/graphics. Maroon cloth boards. Gray paste downs. One of the illustrators is N. C. WYETH (1882-1945). Frontispiece: Looking up into her mother's face expectantly. The four full page illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. Story frames by Wyeth. Each page has a vine design over top and some have cornicopia along bottom in orange. Spine straight, binding tight, pages soiled. No DJ. Hard rubs w/fraying to edges. Caroline rated it liked it. Susanna and Sue by Kate Douglas Wiggins is a slight, 1909 novella about Susanna Hathaway who flees a bad marriage to live in a 19th century Shaker village. John Hathaway was not an abusive man, but he is a shallow rake and Susanna has had enough. She takes her daughter to live and work and regroup with the Shakers. They encourage her to renounce the outside world and join their idyllic community. The portrayal of the Shakers, a strict, eccentric religious community, is surprisingly sympathetic. Its ideals are described and its virtues touted as Susanna struggles to decide her next move. For all that, however, it is not a propaganda piece, as the drawbacks are illustrated too. One small subplot involves two young members who leave the village in order to lead their own lives. Also given the sympathetic treatment is the wronged wife. She is not condemned for abandoning her home and husband (and son). Of course, given the time frame of the novel, the woman is saintly and then the man repents and the marriage is saved. Still surprising, though. It is somewhat interesting as a period piece, both as a near-contemporary portrait of the Shakers and as conventional Edwardian fiction, growing slowly more modern. Source: Goodreads., Houghton Mifflin, 1909, 2.5, New Publications, 1962. Very Good. V138N4, April, First printing, softcover quarto, color wrapper, side-stapled and perfect-bound. Vintage men's adventure magazine, featuring military fiction, nonfiction exposes, and pinup photography, and cover art of Arab Cold War propaganda. Claudia Cardinale by Michalke, Calvin J. Clements, William Brockie, Bruce Minney, Al Rossi, Norm Saunders. Very Good overall, light foxing, rubbing, toning, a few tears, slight roll, wrapper stains. For mature, consenting audiences., New Publications, 1962, 3, Verso, 2008. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes chapter notes and index. xvii, 298 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines theideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the latenineteenth century to the present. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-EasternEuropean nationalism and settler movements, he shows how its texts can beplaced within a wider discourse of western colonization. Revisiting the work ofTheodor Herzl and Gershom Scholem, Anita Shapira and David Ben-Gurion, andbringing to light the writings of lesser-known scholars and thinkersinfluential in the formation of the Zionist myth, Piterberg breaks openprevailing views of Zionism, demonstrating that it was in fact unexceptional, expressing a consciousness and imagination typical of colonial settlermovements. Shaped by European ideological currents and the realities ofcolonial life, Zionism constructed its own story as a unique and impregnableone, in the process excluding the voices of an indigenous people--thePalestinian Arabs., Verso, 2008, 6<