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Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 / Sandra M. Sufian.

Title
  1. Healing the land and the nation : malaria and the Zionist project in Palestine, 1920-1947 / Sandra M. Sufian.
Published by
  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
Author
  1. Sufian, Sandra M. (Sandra Marlene)

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Description
  1. xviii, 385 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Sufian situates antimalarial medicine and politics within larger colonial histories. By analysing the science alongside the politics of Jewish settlement, the book addresses contested questions of social organization and the effects of land reclamation upon the indigenous Palestinian population.
Uniform title
  1. University press scholarship online.
Subject
  1. 1900-1999
  2. Geschichte 1920-1947
  3. Public Health > history
  4. Politics
  5. History, 20th Century
  6. Culture
  7. Colonialism > history
  8. Malaria > prevention & control
  9. Malaria > Israel > History > 20th century
  10. Malaria > Palestine > History > 20th century
  11. Zionism > Israel > History > 20th century
  12. Zionism > Palestine > History > 20th century
  13. Middle East
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Archetypal landscape: healing the land and the nation in the Zionist imagination -- Pathological landscape: epidemiology and medical geography of malaria in Palestine -- Potential landscape: swamp drainage projects and the politics of settlement -- Technological landscape: the Jezreel Valley and the Huleh Valley projects -- Perceptual landscape: scientific experimentation, colonial medicine, and the medicalization of Palestine -- Cultural landscape: creating a culture of health through antimalaria education and propaganda -- Contested landscape: Palestinian Arabs and Zionist antimalaria projects -- Ecological landscape: old paradigms, new meanings.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain