{"product_id":"milk-and-honey-tamar-novick-9780262039079","title":"Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMilk and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e, Tamar Novick writes a revolutionary environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Israel\/Palestine. Focusing on animals and the management of their production and reproduction across three political regimes--the late-Ottoman rule, British rule, and the early Israeli state--Novick draws attention to the ways in which settlers and state experts used agricultural technology to recreate a biblical idea of past plenitude, literally a \"land flowing with milk and honey,\" through the bodies of animals and people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNovick presents a series of case studies involving the management of water buffalo, bees, goats, sheep, cows, and peoplein Palestine\/Israel. She traces the intimate forms of knowledge and bodily labor--production and reproduction--in which this process took place, and the intertwining of bodily, political, and environmental realms in the transformation of Palestine\/Israel. Her wide-ranging approach shows technology never replaced religion as a colonial device. Rather, it merged with settler-colonial aspirations to salvage the land, bolstering the effort to seize control over territory and people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFusing technology, religious fervor, bodily labor, and political ecology, \u003ci\u003eMilk and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e provides a novel account of the practices that defined and continue to shape settler-colonialism in the Palestine\/Israel, revealing the ongoing entanglement of technoscience and religion in our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tamar Novick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262039079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262039079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs","brand":"Tamar Novick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074722132223,"sku":"9780262039079","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_462ce7bc-5adb-401e-abed-33bbe7b8de56.jpg?v=1685455394","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/milk-and-honey-tamar-novick-9780262039079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}