| Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past Contributor(s): Tamari, Salim (Author), Turjman, Ihsan Salih (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520259556 ISBN-13: 9780520259553 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - History | Military - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2011004811 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.75 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods, the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from its streets--soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local, regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. |