Electricity is an integral part of everyday life—so integral that we rarely think of it as political. In <I>Electrical Palestine</I>, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. At the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict, both kinds of power were circulated through the electric grid that was built by the Zionist engineer Pinhas Rutenberg in the period of British rule...
