9780520295896-0520295897-Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation

Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation

ISBN-13: 9780520295896
ISBN-10: 0520295897
Edition: First Edition
Author: Fredrik Meiton
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 312 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520295896
ISBN-10: 0520295897
Edition: First Edition
Author: Fredrik Meiton
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 312 pages

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Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation (ISBN-13: 9780520295896 and ISBN-10: 0520295897), written by authors Fredrik Meiton, was published by University of California Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Israel & Palestine (Middle East History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Israel & Palestine books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.04.

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Electricity is an integral part of everyday lifeā€”so integral that we rarely think of it as political. In Electrical Palestine, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. At the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict, both kinds of power were circulated through the electric grid that was built by the Zionist engineer Pinhas Rutenberg in the period of British rule from 1917 to 1948. Drawing on new sources in Arabic, Hebrew, and several European languages, Electrical Palestine charts a story of rapid and uneven development that was greatly influenced by the electric grid and set the stage for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. Electrification, Meiton shows, was a critical element of Zionist state building. The outcome in 1948, therefore, of Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness was the result of a logic that was profoundly conditioned by the power system, a logic that has continued to shape the area until today.

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