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Electrical Palestine - Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation (Hardcover)
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Electrical Palestine - Capital and Technology from Empire to Nation (Hardcover)
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Electricity is an integral part of everyday life-so integral that
we rarely think of it as political. In Electrical Palestine,
Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like
electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties
govern its flow. 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. Drawing on new sources in Arabic,
Hebrew, and several European languages, Electrical Palestine 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. Electrification, Meiton shows, was a critical
element of Zionist state building. The outcome in 1948, therefore,
of Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness was the result of
a logic that was profoundly conditioned by the power system, a
logic that has continued to shape the area until today.
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