PLEASE NOTE this is a 2012 reading list—the precise content may change in future years.
Term 1, Week 1
The Politics of the Historiography of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Introduction to the module; housekeeping. Lecture: The politics of the historiography of the ArabIsraeli conflict.
Questions for discussion
1. Why is the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict so contested?
2. How is this significant to the study of this module?
Core Reading
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Pappé, A History of Modern Palestine (Introduction)
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Roy, Failing Peace (Preface)
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Lentin, Thinking Palestine (chapters by Lentin on ‘The Contested Memory of Dispossession’
and Al-Hardan on ‘Understanding the Present through the Past)
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Efraim Karsh, Fabricating Israeli History: The New HistoriansNur Masalha, The Palestine
Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory, Zed, 2011
(chapters 2 & 5)
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Roberts, Nicholas E., ‘Re-Remembering the Mandate: Historiographical Debates and
Revisionist History in the Study of British Palestine’, History Compass, Mar 01, 2011; Vol. 9,
No. 3, p. 215-230
Further reading
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Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Verso, 2003.
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Pappé, Ilan, ‘The Vicissitudes of the 1948 Historiography of Israel’, Journal of Palestine
Studies, Oct 01, 2009; Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 6-23
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Maissy-Noy, Rachel, ‘Palestinian historiography in relation to the territory of Palestine’,
Middle Eastern Studies, Nov 01, 2006; Vol. 42, No. 6, p. 889-905
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Pappé, Ilan, ‘Historical Truth, Modern Historiography, and Ethical Obligations: The Challenge
of the Tantura Case’, Holy Land Studies, Nov 01, 2004; Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 171-194
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Caplan, N., ‘Zionism and the Arabs: Another Look at the 'New' Historiography’, Journal of
Contemporary History, Apr 01, 2001; Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 345-360
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Khalidi, Tarif, ‘Palestinian Historiography: 1900-1948’, Journal of Palestine Studies, Apr 01,
1981; Vol. 10, No. 3, p. 59-76
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Shavit, Yaakov, ‘Palestine in the nineteenth century, Jewish settlement in Palestine during
the British mandate, and the Zionist movement: A survey of studies in Israeli historiography
1973-1979’, The Journal of Israeli History, Jan 01, 1980; Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 141-150
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Ilan Pappe & Jamil Hilal, Across the Wall: Narratives of Israeli-Palestinian History, I.B. Tauris,
2010.
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Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman,The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing
Pedagogical Strategies. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011.