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Author Sufian, Sandra M. (Sandra Marlene)

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

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xviii, 385 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-372) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Malaria -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Malaria -- Israel -- History -- 20th century.
Zionism -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century.
Zionism -- Israel -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226779355 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226779351 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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