03137oam 2200589I 450 991049614030332120221108064425.00-585-25890-20-520-91731-610.1525/9780520917316(CKB)110989862154074(SSID)ssj0000234362(PQKBManifestationID)12092978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234362(PQKBWorkID)10240945(PQKB)10427296(OCoLC)ocm56778489(DE-B1597)648975(DE-B1597)9780520917316(EXLCZ)9911098986215407420160829d1995 uy 0engurbu|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRediscovering Palestine merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 /Beshara DoumaniBerkeley :University of California Press,[1995]1 online resource (xi, 340 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations, mapsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-20370-4 0-520-08895-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and index.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.Economic HistoryHILCCBusiness & EconomicsHILCCPeasantsPalestineHistoryNablus RegionEconomic conditionsNablus RegionPolitics and governmentNablus RegionCommerceHistoryPalestineHistory638-1917Economic HistoryBusiness & EconomicsPeasantsHistory.330.95695/3Doumani Beshara1957-1124209California Digital Library.eScholarship.PQKBBOOK9910496140303321Rediscovering Palestine2811225UNINA