The Gaza Strip
Subtitle: its history and politics : from the pharaohs to the Israeli invasion of 2009
By: Nathan Shachar
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brighton; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781845193447; 9781845193454
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The setting: geography, climate, wildlife and ecology; title: Egyptians, Hebrew and Philistines; title: Persians, Greeks and Romans; title: Freedom of religion and the rise of Christianity; title: Arabs and Crusaders, 634-1193; title: Tartars, Mongols and Mamluks; title: Ottoman Conquest and rule, 1517-1918; title: The British Conquest and mandate, 1917-1948; title: The Nakba and the first Arab-Israeli War: the all-Palestine government of Gaza, 1947-1950; title: Egyptian military rule, 1948-1967; title: Israeli conquest and occupation, 1967-1971; title: Ariel Sharon's "dirty war": the beginning of Jewish settlement, 1971-1972; title: The quiet years, 1972-1986; title: The outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising, December 1987; title: Economic warfare and the rise of Islamism, 1987-1991; title: Hardship, delusion and desperation: the First Gulf War, 1990-1991; title: Failure at Madrid and success at Oslo, 1991-1993; title: High hopes and new dangers, 1994-1995; title: Exit Rabin, enter Likud, 1995-1999; title: Barak's gamble and the second Palestinian uprising, 1999-2001; title: The return of Sharon: the destruction of Palestinian self-rule, 2001-2003; title: The death of Yasser Arafat: the evacuation of the strip, 2003-2005; title: Sharon's departure: the Hamas election triumph, 2005-2006; title: Civil War and the Hamas takeover, 2007; title: Operation "cast lead", 2008-2009; title: Epilogue: an ideological war of nerves and prestige.