Rediscovering Palestine - Merchants & Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (Paper)

1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-520-20370-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Drawing 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doumani, Beshara

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Plates, and Tables
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Note on Translation and Transliteration
INTRODUCTION: PALESTINE AND THE OTTOMAN INTERIOR 
Toward a History of Provincial Life in the Ottoman Interior 
Rethinking Ottoman Palestine 
Sources 
Approach and Methodology 
1. THE MEANINGS OF AUTONOMY
Jabal Nablus as a Social Space 
Boundaries in Time and Space 
Conclusion 
2. FAMILY, CULTURE, AND TRADE
Textile Merchants 
The Arafat Family 
Regional Trade Networks 
Local Trade Networks 
Conclusion 
J· COTTON, TEXTILES, AND THE POLITICS OF TRADE
Cotton and the Politics of Monopoly 
The Politics of Free Trade 
Textiles: Resilience and Restructuring 
Conclusion 
4· THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OLIVE OIL
From the Hands of the Peasants 
A Forced Marriage? 
Redefining Identity and Political Authority 
Conclusion 
5. SOAP, CLASS, AND STATE
Soap and the Economy 
Soap and Society 
Soap and the State 
Conclusion 
CONCLUSION 
The Labyrinthine Journey 
The Discourses of Modernity 
Appendix 1. Weights and Measures 
Appendix 2. Court Records, Judges, and Private
Family Papers 
Appendix 3· Soap Factories and the Process of Production 
Glossary 
Notes 
Select Bibliography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Beshara Doumani is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.