Mountain against the sea essays on Palestinian society and culture / Salim Tamari.
| Author/creator | Tamārī, Salīm |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 237 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Palestine's conflictual modernity -- The mountain against the sea? -- Cultural wars of the eastern Mediterranean -- From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna : small towns and social control -- Bourgeois nostalgia and the abandoned city -- A musician's lot : the Jawhariyyeh memoirs as a key to Jerusalem's early modernity -- Lepers, lunatics, and saints : the nativist ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and his circle -- Sultana and Khalil : the origins of romantic love in Palestine -- The last feudal lord -- Ishaq Shami and the predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine -- The enigmatic bolshevik from the Holy city -- The vagabond caf's and Jerusalem's prince of idleness. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-221) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Mountain against the sea Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2009. 9780520251298 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021696690 |
| ISBN | 9780520942424 ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |