Gabriel Polley: Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land [2022] paperback Condition:New are poignant moments of nostalgia

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Gabriel Polley: Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land [2022] paperback Condition:New are poignant moments of nostalgiaNarratives of the modern history of Palestine Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in 1917. However, this work argues that the contest over Palestine has its roots deep in the 19th century, with Victorians who first cast the Holy Land as an area to be possessed by empire, then began to devise schemes for its settler colonization. The product of historical research among almost forgotten guidebooks, archives