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thirst for jerusalem

One of the first concerns of a Western traveler abroad is what is "state of the water which flows from the tap. In short: "I can drink it, then I use it?" His curiosity
usually stops there. For those who want to "dig" the subject on a city like Jerusalem

LEMIRE VINCENT: THE THIRST FOR JERUSALEM Test hydrohistoire (1840-1948)


I have read dozens of selected pages of this book very well done. Everything is said in the introduction below. Interesting historical approach at a time when many cities are experiencing problems in designing and managing their water supply system.
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The urban history of Jerusalem in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, buried under memories competing eventually disappear behind the symbolic and nationalist conflicts.

To break with a narrow communitarian and geostrategic of the Holy City, to make it rebound dimension profane and everyday without losing sight of the arrangement of its territories, its monuments, its terrain and its citizens, Vincent Lemire chose to write the history of the city through the prism of the water issue. Perched at more than 700 meters, Jerusalem is desperately short of drinking water, especially between les années 1840, moment du décollage démographique, et l’inauguration en 1936 de la monumentale canalisation de Ras el-Aïn. La « soif de Jérusalem » devient dès lors un enjeu majeur de l’action publique, qu’elle soit portée par les autorités civiles et religieuses de la ville ou par les puissances internationales qui s’en disputent le contrôle.

L’histoire de cette longue quête hydraulique, dominée tour à tour par les archéologues et les philanthropes occidentaux, puis par les autorités impériales ottomanes et les édiles municipaux et enfin par les porte-drapeaux du projet sioniste et du nationalisme palestinien, s’appuie sur analyzing a variety of sources and largely unpublished: Ottoman archives of the municipality of Jerusalem and agent, records of the administration of waqf, the imperial archives of Istanbul, consular and diplomatic archives from London, Paris and Nantes, archives of the Zionist movement Jerusalem, private collections. This pioneering study shows that the issue is a hydro exciting observatory for urban history and draw the outlines of a new historical method, the hydrohistoire, particularly effective for understanding the meaning of saturated places like the city of Jerusalem.

Vincent Lemire, a former student de l’École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, est maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine à l’université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée et membre du laboratoire « Analyse comparée des pouvoirs » (EA 3350). Ses recherches actuelles portent sur Jérusalem et le Proche-Orient contemporain, l’histoire environnementale et la patrimonialisation urbaine.