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
