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1. Introduction 000
2. "The Bible Was Our Handbook and Guide": Women's Travel
Writing and the English-Palestinian Encounter 000
3. Harems, Festivals, and Clothes: Materiality and the
English-Palestinian Encounter 000
4. Missions and More: Making a Home in the Holy Land 000
5. Things Go Wrong: Failure at the Protestant Orphanage at
Nazareth 000
6. A Refracted Gaze: Palestinian Women Reading the English 000
Conclusion 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
Acknowledgments
As I face the end of what has been a long journey of inquiry and
creativity, I have many organizations and people to thank for
making it possible for me to publish this book. I have lived
with the narratives and personalities presented here for the
better part of a decade, and my travels in pursuit of their
stories have been literally and figuratively vast. Many
archivists and librarians on three continents have my gratitude
for their tireless assistance in my hunt for sources. In the
United Kingdom, I would like to thank the trustees of the
Ashmolean Museum Library, Oxford; the Bristol Record Office; the
British Library, London; the Buckinghamshire Record Office,
Aylesbury; the Hertfordshire Record Office, Hertford; the
Women's Library (then the Fawcett Library at the London
Guildhall University); the National Register of Archives,
London; the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Leopold
Muller Memorial Library, Oxford University; the Bodleian
Library, Oxford University; the Palestine Exploration Fund,
London; the Royal Geographical Society, London; the Middle East
Centre Library, St. Antony's College, Oxford University; the
Middle East Centre Personal Papers Collection, St. Antony's
College, Oxford University; the University of Birmingham Main
Library, Special Collections; the University of Southampton,
Hartley Library, Special Collections; and the University of
Liverpool, Special Collections and Archives. In Jerusalem, I
would like to thank the trustees of the Central Zionist Archive;
Christ Church; the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus; the Israel Trust for
the Anglican Church; the Jewish National and University Library,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram; and the Yad Ben Zvi
Library, Jerusalem. Greater than the books and papers I
consulted was the impact made upon me by the women who opened up
their homes and personal histories to me during interviews about
their lives in Jerusalem, Haifa, and Florida. I can only extend
to them my undying gratitude, and my enduring hopes that their
homeland finds some semblance of peace in the years to come. In
the United States, the librarians of the University of
California at Santa Barbara, the University of Central Florida,
and the University of North Texas have my thanks for making it
possible for me to fill in all of the details.
I have been assisted financially by a number of
institutions and programs, and without their help, I would not
have been able to conduct the research or complete this work.
Thank you to the Fulbright Commission; the University of
California at Santa Barbara Department of History; the Oxford
Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; the Social Science
Research Council, Harvard University; the Wissenschaftskolleg zu
Berlin; the UCSB History Associates (including Professor Stephen
Hay and the family of J. Bruce Anderson); the Faculty of
Theology at Leiden University; the UCSB Graduate Division; the
UCSB Center for Middle East Studies; the King Abdul Aziz al-Saud
endowment; the College of Arts and Sciences and the Provost's
Office at the University of Central Florida; the UCF Department
of History; and the State of California.
This work began at the University of California at Santa
Barbara, and I owe a world of gratitude to my mentors and
friends at that fantastic institution. Nancy E. Gallagher always
amazes me with her undying energy, professionalism,
encouragement, and knowledge, and I thank her deeply for being
my professor and providing me with an outstanding model of the
kind of intellectual I would like to become--a person whose deep
social activism and commitment to justice infuses all
professional activities and perspectives. I must also thank
Erika D. Rappaport, a scholar whose rigor and standards are as
high as her unending support, attention, and kindness. R.
Stephen Humphreys has also been an unending source of
inspiration to me, and I appreciate the time and energy he has
devoted to advancing both my knowledge and my career. Richard D.
Hecht has proven invaluable to me as well, giving me advice and
instruction that has been priceless in helping my scholarship
and professional development. These four professors have been
generous, inspirational, and patient, and I will feel forever
indebted to them for what they have taught me, and for all of
the support they have given me over the years.
The revisions to this work took place primarily over the
five years that I was fortunate enough to be an assistant
professor in the History Department at the University of Central
Florida, and I would like to thank my colleagues and friends in
Orlando for their professional encouragement and personal
friendship. In particular, I would like to thank my chair at
UCF, Edmund Kallina, as well as Richard Crepeau, for providing
me with the best resources in their power for my professional
success and development. The final stages of this book were
completed as I began my new position at the University of North
Texas, and I would like to thank my new colleagues in Denton for
their warm welcome to academic life in the Lone Star State.
I warmly thank the staff of the University Press of Florida
for all of their hard work bringing this book to fruition. In
particular, I would like to thank my editor, Amy Gorelick, for
her unfailing patience and encouragement from the very beginning
of the process to the very end.
Many colleagues and friends have provided crucial
professional and personal support during many years of work, and
I would like to thank all of them for their tireless generosity.
In particular, I would like to thank (in alphabetical order)
Hibba Abugideiri, Rodney Alvarez, Paul Arthur, Laura Bier,
Angelica DeAngelis, Greg Dening, Maeve Devoy, Howard Eissenstat,
Ellen Fleischmann, Craig Friend, Elizabeth Frierson, Alexandra
Garbarini, Jeff Harris, Rachel Howes, Heather Keaney, Michael
Marten, Nabil Matar, Heleen Murre-van den Berg, Holly
Neubuerger, Darcy Ritzau, Michael Thompson, Charlotte van der
Leest, and Carole Woodall, all of whom have given me invaluable
advice on this work and/or invaluable friendship during its
creation.
Most important to me are two people who have given me
unconditional love, support, and friendship, and without their
presence in my life, I am certain this work would never have
been completed. Carter McBeath, I thank you for your love,
intellect, and companionship, and look forward to many more
years of life by your side. And to my mother, Nancy Sue
Stockdale, your unfailing love and support have sustained me
since day one, and I dedicate this book to you as a small token
of gratitude for making it all possible.
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