TY - BOOK AU - Trimbur,Dominique AU - Haider-Wilson,Barbara TI - Europe and Palestine 1799-1948: Religion - Politics - Society SN - 9783700168041 PB - Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften KW - History / Modern KW - bisacsh KW - History KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - The encounter of Occident and Orient is one of the major topics of our time. This encounter is the theme of the present volume in regards to the Palestinian realm from 1799 to 1948. The contributions of twelve authors from Germany, France, Israel, Italy, Austria, Russia, and Switzerland are concerned with a period in which the ordinary interest for the land of the Bible and Christian history was connected to a much greater cultural and political discourse, which was not only carried out by the western churches, but also by European societies in general. In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Palestine, many forces were at work; from 1516/17 Palestine belonged to the Ottoman Empire. Beginning in the nineteenth century, especially after 1840, this small territory became an issue for world politics. The maintenance of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire constituted one of the guidelines of the European powers UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/d94917d1-02d1-4a4d-8c24-585bdeb9e7fe ER -