Fire in the Hill Country: The Forgotten War for Palestine, 1831-1841 - Couverture souple

Moore-Delany, Jacob

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235269132

Editeur : SilverBack, 2026

Synopsis

In the spring of 1834, a sheikh in the hills above Nablus made a choice he had spent years trying to avoid. Qasim al-Ahmad had watched Egypt's armies sweep across Palestine, had watched a three-century-old world of olive terraces and negotiated custom buckle under conscription, disarmament, and taxes no sultan had ever dared impose - and now his own people were done waiting for him to act. What followed was one of the most dramatic and least-known uprisings of the nineteenth-century Middle East: a peasant revolt that briefly seized Jerusalem, humiliated an army that had already broken the Ottoman Empire twice, and forced the great powers of Europe to intervene. The Hills Rise Up traces this forgotten war from Muhammad Ali's ruthless rise in Egypt through the siege of Acre, the fall of Damascus, and the battlefield triumphs that nearly toppled Istanbul itself - before turning to the revolt's brutal suppression and its stranger, sadder legacy: how the crushing of one man's rebellion cleared the ground for the very bureaucratic order he died resisting. Rich with betrayal, siege warfare, and the quiet tragedy of a vanishing world, this is narrative history that reads like a reckoning.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jacob Moore-Delany was born in Belfast and studied history before turning to long-form narrative nonfiction, drawn to the moments when empires collide with the people who never asked to be swept up in them. His interest in the nineteenth-century Middle East began with a chance encounter, during postgraduate research, with a dusty consular report describing a "disturbance" outside Jerusalem in 1834 - three sentences that eventually grew into a book. Moore-Delany has spent the years since tracing the tangled threads connecting Cairo, Istanbul, and the hill villages of Palestine, with a particular fascination for the ordinary sheikhs, soldiers, and families whose names rarely survive in official archives. He lives outside Dublin, where he is at work on his next book, a history of the Tanzimat reforms and their long shadow across the Ottoman provinces.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SilverBack
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235269132
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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