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Ilana Feldman

Governing Gaza : bureaucracy, authority, and the work of rule, 1917-1967 - Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. - xii, 324 pages , [4] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Acknowledgments --
Note on transliteration --
Introduction --
Government practice and the place of Gaza --
Producing bureaucratic authority --
Ruling files --
On being a civil servant --
Civil service competence and the course of a career --
Tactical practice and government work --
Service in crisis --
Servicing everyday life --
Community services and formations of civic life --
Conclusion --
Gaza and an anthropology of government.

An investigation into how government persists under even the most untenable conditions, based on an analysis of government in Gaza between 1917 and 1967.

ISBN: 9780822342403

Publisher. No.: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) LTD 7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Gaza Strip -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Representative government and representation -- Gaza Strip.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Politics and government

Dewey Class. No.: 953.1