Charles D. Smith Books

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible narrative of a complex historical topic. The narrative is supported by more than 40 primary documents that highlight perspectives from all sides of the struggle. Throughout the book, the author examines how underlying issues, group motives, religious and cross-cultural clashes, diplomacy and imperialism, and the arrival of the modern era shaped this volatile region. Maps, photographs, chronologies, public opinion polls, and discussion questions help facilitate student understanding. A fully updated final chapter makes this the most current history of the topic.

Charles D. Smith provides a remarkably comprehensive and objective account of this complex subject, adopting a long-view approach. The seventh edition of this established text has been revised and updated throughout and now features a new Prologue, Epilogue, questions for consideration, and coverage right up to Spring 2009.