Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine
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A groundbreaking cultural history.--Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev In this innovative work, Netta Cohen depicts Zionism's debt to and departure from Western colonial science. She offers a provocative and multilayered analysis of the relationship between climate, health, settler colonialism, and Jewish settlement in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century.--Derek Penslar, Harvard University