Sacred Landscape
Subtitle: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (Honorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Award, Middle Eastern Studies Association)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780520234222
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Jewish studies; Political geography; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Sociology; Social Science; History - General History; Israel; Palestine; General; Social Science / Jewish Studies
First sentence: On 18 July 1949 a group made up of nine scholars, well known in their respective fields of cartography, archaeology, geography, and history, gathered at the prime minister's office in Tel Aviv.