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Electrical Palestine
- Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation
Engelsk Hardback
Electrical Palestine
- Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation
Engelsk Hardback

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Electricity is an integral part of everyday life—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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
312
ISBN-13:
9780520295889
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520295889
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 jan 2019
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
236mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
15 jan 2019
Forfatter(e):
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