Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction 1. The Philistines and Philistia as a Distinct Geo-political Entity: Late Bronze Age to 500 BC2. The Conception of Palestine in Classical Antiquity and During the Hellenistic Empires (500-135 BC)3. From Philistia to Provincia 'Syria Palaestina' (135 AD-390 AD): The Administrative Province of Roman Palestine4. The (Three in One) Provincia Palaestina: The Three Administrative Provinces of Byzantine Palestine (4th-Early 7th Centuries AD)5. Arab Christian Palestine: The Pre-Islamic Arab Kings, Bishops and Poets and Tribes of Provincia Palaestina (3rd-Early 7th Centuries AD)6. The Arab Province of Jund Filastin (638-1099 AD): Continuities, Adaption and Transformation of Palestine under Islam 7. Between Egypt and al-Sham: Palestine during the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Early Ottoman Periods8. Palestinian Statehood in the 18th Century: Early Modernities and Practical Sovereignty in Palestine9. Being Palestine, Becoming Palestine: Rediscovery and New Representations of Modern Palestine and their Impact on Palestinian National Identity10. Settler-colonialism and Disinheriting the Palestinians: The Appropriation of Palestinian Place Names by the Israeli State