Year of the locust [electronic resource] : a soldier's diary and the erasure of Palestine's Ottoman past / Salim Tamari.
2011
D568.7 .T36 2011eb
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Year of the locust [electronic resource] : a soldier's diary and the erasure of Palestine's Ottoman past / Salim Tamari.
Author
Tamārī, Salīm.
Uniform Title
ʻĀm al-jarād. English
ISBN
9780520948785 (electronic book)
9780520259553
9780520259553
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 201 p.) : ill., map
Call Number
D568.7 .T36 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.4/15092 B
Summary
Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods, the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from its streets-soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local, regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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