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Article: Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948.(Book review)
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- Middle East Quarterly
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- January 1, 2008
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Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948. By Mark LeVine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.457 pp. $65 ($29.95, paper).
Unless there is strong evidence to the contrary, it is wise to assume that the "good ole' days" never existed. Nostalgia, American diplomat George Ball once noted, is a seductive liar. One would think academic historians would know this, but it seems not all do.
LeVine, assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern history, culture, and Islamic studies at the University of California, Irvine, believes that Arab peasants in 1920s Palestine had it good until the Zionists sneaked in, ...