Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 18)
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- Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 18)
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elderly Palestinians. Also interviewed during my stay in London-
England was Lord Caradon, who during the 1930s, occupied the position
of a District Commissioner (Palestine: Northern District).
The strength of these data lay, mainly, in the logical validity
they provided our study with. These data have helped us to re-
evaluate a number of socio-economic and political phenomena and
understand them from a different perspective. (See further
discussion).
To come to grips with Palestine's pre-capitalist history, Chapter
Two examines its socio-economic structure during the late nineteenth
century, focusing on the various local (internal) and international
(external) forces involved. This Chapter delineates the salient
features of the mode of production. Its general theme tends to support
some findings of the existing literature. However, the particularities
of our analysis are different in that we highlight the transitory
character of Palestine's economic structure in late nineteenth
century.
In examining the different categories of land tenure systems in
Palestine, we consult two rare manuscripts believed to be particularly
significant in clarifying the issue of land system in Palestine. The
first is the Arabic translation of the Ottoman land laws of 1856-57,
published in 1924. The second document is a Judicial treatise on the
difference between private individual land and state land in
Palestine, written originally in Italian, by a Priest-Advocate in
1936. These manuscripts provide important insights to such issues’ as
state land (or Amiri category) and communal land (Musha'ta), which have
been traditionally confused with each other and occasionally gave rise
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- المنشئ
- Nahla Abdo-Zubi
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