Mapping Power

Name: Mapping Power
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
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History of Landscape in the Jordan Valley

By: Ben Gitai

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Paperback | 5 September 2025 | Edition Number 1

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184 Pages

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An excavation of the Jordan Valley's hidden history, depicting how mapping has not only documented territorial disputes but actively shaped them.

For millennia, landscapes have been battlegrounds of power, history, and identity—nowhere more so than in the Jordan Rift Valley. In Mapping Power: History of Landscape in the Jordan Valley, Ben Gitai unearths the hidden forces that have shaped Naharayim/Al-Baqoura, a politically charged site at the crossroads of empire and conflict. Blending political geography and historical analysis, Gitai reveals how mapping and cartography have been wielded as tools of control by successive rulers, ranging from the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate to present-day territorial disputes.

Over one hundred and fifty years, this valley has been transformed by competing visions of land, water, and national identity, making it a microcosm of the enduring tensions in the Holy Land. Offering an intricate analysis of place and power, this book challenges conventional narratives of landscape history and exposes how maps do not merely document history but shape it.

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