Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by investigating the ways in which urban-rural dynamics in a provincial setting appropriated and gave meaning to the larger forces of Ottoman rule and European economic expansion. He traces the relationship between culture, politics, and economic change by looking at how merchant families constructed trade networks and cultivated political power, and by showing how peasants defined their identity and formulated their notions of justice and political authority. Original and accessible, this study challenges nationalist constructions of history and provides a context for understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is also the first comprehensive work on the Nablus region, Palestine's trade, manufacturing, and agricultural heartland, and a bastion of local autonomy. Doumani rediscovers Palestine by writing the inhabitants of this ancient land into history. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
Sources | 9 |
THE MEANINGS OF AUTONOMY | 16 |
Tables | 48 |
FAMILY CULTURE AND TRADE | 54 |
COTTON TEXTILES AND THE POLITICS OF TRADE | 95 |
British cotton imports from Turkey 17251789 | 99 |
Cotton production in the Levant 1837 | 104 |
Soap and the Economy | 187 |
Soap and Society | 197 |
Account of soap cooked in Nabluss soap factories and of taxes assessed for each individual 18421843 | 213 |
Soap and the State | 216 |
Conclusion | 231 |
The Discourses of Modernity | 240 |
Weights and Measures | 247 |
Islamic Court records of Nablus 16551865 | 250 |
Cotton exports from Acre Haifa and Jaffa 18521875 | 106 |
English exports of cotton goods to the Ottoman Empire 18251860 121 7 British exports to SyriaPalestine 18361850 | 121 |
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OLIVE OIL | 131 |
A Forced Marriage? | 149 |
Redefining Identity and Political Authority | 165 |
Conclusion | 178 |
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| Title | Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900 |
| Author | Beshara Doumani |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0520917316, 9780520917316 |
| Length | 340 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Middle East / General |
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