Milk and Honey

“[Milk and Honey] was fascinating to read and provided deep insights into the ways that scientific knowledge and technical capacity were wrangled in service to the settlement of European Jews in Palestine.”
—H-Net Book Reviews

“Novick’s work is a tour de force of historical analysis that would enrich historians of science and technology, environmental historians, scholars of Mandatory Palestine, and nonacademic readers alike.”
—Agricultural History

“Through its focus on the interconnectedness of human and animal bodies, scientific knowledge, and colonial power, Milk and Honey provides a fresh perspective on the history of Palestine/Israel.”
—History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

“Tamar Novick skillfully examines the transformation of agriculture and animal husbandry adopted by the early Zionist settlers of Palestine, encouraged by the British, and continued post-1948 by the Israelis.”
—Jerusalem Quarterly

“Tamar Novick’s Milk and Honey is a richly detailed study that examines how the highly evocative rhetorical Biblical phrase—“a land flowing with milk and honey”—came to be embodied in settler and state projects to assert control over Palestine/Israel.”
—Technology and Culture

Tamar Novick is a senior research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

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