Electrical Palestine - Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation Meiton FredrikPevná vazba
Electrical Palestine - Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation Meiton FredrikPevná vazba Electricity is an integral part of everyday life, so integral that we rarely think of it as political. At…
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Electrical Palestine - Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation Meiton FredrikPevná vazba
Electricity is an integral part of everyday life, so integral that we rarely think of it as political. At the dawn of the Arab-Israeli Conflict both kinds of power were circulated through the electric grid that was built by the Zionist engineer Pinhas Rutenberg in the period of British rule from 1917 to 1948. In Electrical Palestine, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electricity, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow.
Electrification, Meiton shows, was the single most important element of Zionist state-building, in practice if not ideologically. Drawing on new sources in Arabic, Hebrew, and several European languages, Meiton charts a story of rapid and uneven development that was greatly influenced by the electric grid and set the stage for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. The outcome in 1948, therefore, of Jewish statehood