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Book SynopsisToday Israel's Separation Wall swallows land, separating Palestinian farmers from their fields, and Israeli settlements grow in the Occupied Territories. Revealing the Israel-Palestine landscape primarily as one of enclosure, this title sheds light on Israel's actions.
Trade Review"Reading Enclosure brings home the tragedy of such immense and irrevocable destruction." * New York Review of Books *
"The author utilizes a historical-comparative methodology to produce a trajectory of today’s Palestinian loss since the time of legal land reforms in England. In this book, the story of the Palestinian landscape becomes a mirror onto which other histories are projected." * Journal of Palestine Studies *
“A unique exploration of the development of the Israeli culture of land grabs and the historical legal framework and precedents that have allowed Zionist policies to continue unimpeded.” * Middle East Monitor *
"A book of incredible historical sweep and compelling depth of analysis. In
Enclosure, none of the arguments Fields undertakes operates at the level of mere assertion." -- Don Mitchell, * American Association of Geographers Review of Books *
Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 • THE CONTOURS OF ENCLOSURE
PART ONE
LAND INTO PROPERTY: ENCLOSURE, LAND IMPROVEMENT, AND MAKING PROPERTY ON THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE
2 • EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LANDSCAPES: RIGHTS OF LAND TENURE AND THE COMMON FIELDS
3 • FROM LAND REIMAGINED TO LANDSCAPES REMADE: THE DISCOURSE OF IMPROVEMENT AND ENCLOSING THE COMMON FIELDS
PART TWO
A LANDSCAPE OF LINES: COLONIZATION AND ERADICATION OF AMERINDIAN LANDSCAPES
4 • AMERINDIAN LANDSCAPES: SUBSISTENCE SYSTEMS, SPIRIT WORLDS, AND INDIGENOUS LAND TENURE
5 • REIMAGINING AND REMAKING NATIVE LANDSCAPES: LAND IMPROVEMENT AND TAKING AMERINDIAN LAND
PART THREE
“THIS IS OUR LAND”: REDEEMING THE PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPE
6 • PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPES: LANDHOLDING AND TENANCY IN HISTORIC PALESTINE
7 • FROM IMAGINATION TO REDEMPTION: CRAFTING A HEBREW LANDSCAPE ON PALESTINIAN LAND
8 • ENCLOSURE IN A HISTORICAL MIRROR
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
