Sacred Landscape
Subtitle: The Buried History of the Holy Land  since 1948
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780520211544
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Jewish studies; Political geography; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Israel; Israel - History; Social aspects; History; History - General History; Middle East - Israel; History: World; Palestine; Earth Sciences - Geography; Jewish - General; Social Science / Jewish Studies; Historical Geography; Refugees; Arab-Israeli conflict; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Names, Geographical
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.