Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror

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Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror

Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Gary Fields examines the dispossession of Palestinians from their landâ€”and Israelâ€™s rationale for seizing control of Palestinian landâ€”in the contexts of a broad historical analysis of power and space and of an enduring discourse about land improvement. Focusing on the English enclosures (which eradicated access to common land across the English countryside), Amerindian dispossession in colonial America, and Palestinian land loss, Fields shows how exclusionary landscapes have emerged across time and geography. Evidence that the same moral, legal, and cartographic arguments were used by enclosers of land in very different historical environments challenges Israelâ€™s current claim that it is uniquely beleaguered. This comparative framework also helps readers in the United States and the United Kingdom understand the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the context of their own histories.

Country	USA
Author	Gary Fields
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520964921
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	424
PublicationDate	2017-09-05
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2017-08-01
Studio	University of California Press

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