Translated from the German.

Names and borders -- The holiness of the "Holy Land" -- Contrasts : Palestine, 1750-1840 -- The age of reform, 1840-1914 -- Evolving nationalisms : Zionism and Arabism, 1880-1914 -- "A land without a people for a people without a land"? : Population, settlement, and cultivation, 1800-1914 -- World War I and the British mandate -- Double standard, or dual obligation -- "Two peoples in one land" -- The Mufti and the Wailing Wall -- From unrest to uprising -- The Arab uprising, 1936-39 -- Triumph and catastrophe : from World War II to the state of Israel.