Rediscovering Palestine

Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900
1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-520-20370-9
Verlag: UCAL POD

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

Reihe: University of California Press

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

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

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.