Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine in the Nineteenth and...

Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine in the Nineteenth and... -

Palestinian history differs markedly from that of other parts of the world, causing many to treat it as a thing apart, with its own special logic requiring its own mode of analy­sis; contributors to this anthology, however, “believe that Palestinian structures and pro­cesses can be analyzed satisfactorily with the help of concepts and methods used in the social sciences while, at the same time, giving due weight to their specific features,” ac­cording to Roger Owen, editor. The book consists of four studies of eco­nomic and social history plus an introduction by Roger Owen. Other authors and articles are Alexander Schöch, “European Penetra­tion and the Economic Development of Pal­estine, 1856–1882”; Sarah Graham-Brown, “The Political Economy of the Jabal Nablus 1929–1948”; Salim Tamari, “Factionalism and Class Formation in Recent Palestinian His­tory”; and Avi Plascov, “Jordan’s Border In­habitants: The Forsaken Palestinians?”