Book description
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories
provides non-specialist readers with an introduction and historical
overview of the issues that have characterized and defined 130 years of
the still unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Provides a fresh attempt to break away from polemical approaches
that have undermined academic discussion and political debates
- Focuses on a series of core arguments that the author considers
essentially unwinnable
- Introduces readers to the major historiographical debates sparked
by the dispute
- Encourages readers to consider more useful ways of explaining and
understanding the conflict, and to go beyond trying to prove who is
'right' and 'wrong'
"This volume suggests a fresh and original interpretation to the
history of the Arab Israeli conflict. Caplan juggles skillfully and
even-handedly between the two narratives, reflecting the parties' own
views without embracing the cause of any party."
-Joseph
Nevo, University of Haifa
"An impressive and very valuable work. One could not ask for a
better short history of the conflict. Caplan offers readers a study
that is extremely well-informed, resolutely fair-minded, and filled
with thoughtful insights."
-Mark Tessler, University
of Michigan
Neil Caplan holds a PhD in Politics from London
School of Economics & Political Science (University of London) and
is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University and
Scholar in Residence at Vanier College, Montreal, Canada. He recently
retired after 35 years of teaching in the Humanities Department of
Vanier College. He has published numerous articles and seven books,
including Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925
(1978), Futile Diplomacy, a four-volume study of Arab-Zionist
and Arab-Israeli negotiations from 1913 to 1956, and (with Laurie Z.
Eisenberg), Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems,
Possibilities (1998; revised edition 2010).
