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LEADER: 01605cam a22002534a 4500
001 2008021097
003 DLC
005 20081107173209.0
008 080508s2008 cau b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780520251298 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aDS112$b.T36 2009
082 00 $a956.9405$222
100 1 $aTamārī, Salīm.
245 10 $aMountain against the sea :$bessays on Palestinian society and culture /$cSalim Tamari.
260 $aBerkeley, CA :$bUniversity of California Press,$c2009.
300 $axi, 237 p. ;$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-221) and index.
505 0 $aList 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.
651 0 $aPalestine$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
650 0 $aPalestinian Arabs$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
651 0 $aPalestine$xCivilization.