American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania 9780691216324, 0691009732

American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania 9780691216324

In the nineteenth century, American tourists, scholars, evangelists, writers, and artists flocked to Palestine as part o

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Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic 9781512824476

Speculation Nation chronicles the “mania” for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation’s elite f

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Palestine under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land 9781463212766

This detailed study of the physical layout and traditions of the Holy Land and Syria contains an enormous amount of deta

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The Holy Land Revealed

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The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought 0300060831, 9780300060836

From the time of Jesus, Palestine has been an integral part of the Christian experience. Not only have Christians always

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The Holy Land

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The Palestine Triangle: The Struggle for the Holy Land, 1935–48 [Hardcover ed.] 0399123989, 9780399123986

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Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land 9780755643127, 9780755643134, 9780755643165, 9780755643141

Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain’s a

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Mapping the Holy Land: The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine 9781350987104, 9780857727855

Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographe

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The Land Called Holy 9780300192292

From the time of Jesus, Palestine has been an integral part of the Christian experience. Not only have Christians always

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