Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520203704 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Excellent!" according to KATHERINE LAZZARINO. Excellent!
About the AuthorBeshara Doumani is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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. 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 histor
Beshara Doumani is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.