This book provides a comprehensive overview of Palestine through an examination of political history, contemporary politics, economics and engagement in international relations. Focussing on Palestine through the lens of nation-statehood, this book documents the unrealised quest for sovereignty and independence, fragmentation of the nation across multiple borders, the related prominence of a large and diverse diaspora, and the physical and political division of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It examines the limitations besetting Palestinian economic development and goes on to analyse...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Palestine through an examination of political history, contemporary politics, economics and engagement in international relations. Focussing on Palestine through the lens of nation-statehood, this book documents the unrealised quest for sovereignty and independence, fragmentation of the nation across multiple borders, the related prominence of a large and diverse diaspora, and the physical and political division of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It examines the limitations besetting Palestinian economic development and goes on to analyse...

In the 1970s, Nigel Parsons found himself working on the French grape harvest alongside five Manouche families: a group the French advised him to stay away from. The Manouche were barred from the end-of-harvest feast and vanished overnight. Unable to forget their campfires, their music and their dancing, Nigel returned to France in search of the Manouche and fell into their world. He lived as they did, travelling from place to place, under constant pressure to settle or move on from an unsympathetic government. In his time with them he saw long, companionable evenings around the campfire,...