Eliav mordechai ed (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. 430 pages ; 25 cm. Great Britain was the first European power to establish a consulate in Jerusalem, soon to be followed by other nations. When the consulate was forced to close late in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, the consular records were burnt to avoid their falling into the hands of the Turkish authorities. Mordechai Eliav has selected 135 documents dating from the appointment of the first consul in 1838 until the final report in the closing down of the consulate in November 1914. The documents are not only indicative of the activities of the consulate and its officials; they reflect political, social and economic developments in Palestine as a whole, and in Jerusalem in particular, for almost 75 years, and the British interest aid involvement in these developments. This volume is an important contribution to British diplomatic history as well as to the history of nineteenth-century Palestine.…

Original Cloth, with d/j. Condizione: Near Fine. 290pp Hebrew text + English table of content. A fine copy. S.

RARE collection of 27 studies on various aspects of Palestine`s history in the late Ottoman period by the leading scholars in the field. The studies are grouped in four sections: 1) Government and Administration; 2) Society and Economy; 3) Foreign Involvement; 4) Sources for the History of Ottoman Palestine. The authors are: Carter V.Findley, Haim Gerber, Ruth Kark, Robert Eisenman, Engin D.Akarli, Butrus Abu-Manneh, Uri M.Kupferschmidt, Alexander Schölch, Ruth Roded, C.Ernest Gilbar, Fred M.Gottheil, Shmuel Avitsur [Avitzur], Daniel Crecelius, Yair Hirschfeld, Isaiah Friedman, Moshe Rinott, Alex Carmel, David Kushner, Caesar E.Farah, J.C.Hurewitz, `Adel Manna`, U.O.Schmelz, Mordechai Eliav, Nathan Schur, Geoffrey Lewis. 250x175mm. XII+434 pages. Purple cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. White lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket spine yellowing/faded. Jacket edges and corners rubbed. Jacket spine upper edge wrinkled. Cover slightly curved. Cover edges slightly bumped. Spine edges bumped and faded. Previous owners` name written in pen on front whitepage. Front whitepage and pre-title page bottom corner wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely collection of historic, economic, sociological and geographical articles by the leading authorities on Ottoman Palestine is in good condition. The book is in : English.…