Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 128)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 128)

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into one continuous estate and technology and capital will be
successfully applied. (11}
Finally, it must be added that in no place throughout the "sale
documents" was there any reference to the national question or to the
necessity to provide land to Jewish immigrants. The manner in which
the sale contracts were conducted, was purely market oriented.
Nonetheless, this economic factor by no means implies that the
sellers were to profit from the sale transaction. To the contrary, as
the following evidence will show, neither the price paid in the Marj
transfer was high nor was it the determining factor in the
transaction.
Information from the initial sale contract which covered an area of
about 7,356d. and included 11 villages does not strongly support
this claim about the profitability of the sale.(12) The price paid for
this area was estimated at 286,500 Egyptian pounds (or P.L.286,500).
The acreage price per one dunam of land accordingly was about P.L.3.
To date, no evidence has been provided as to the actual value of the
land, however some strong indications regarding its approximate worth
are available.
For example, in his reference to production in the Marj, Owen
observed that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the land was
considered as a highly profitable enterprise, generating "great
rewards" to the Sursuks (Owen,1981:175). Moreover, the documents of
sale, in more than one place, emphasize the fact that prices paid by
the purchasers were "either basically not higher than the prices
paid for this land before the War". -The price offered before the war
was estimated at 3 1/2 Egyptian pounds-, or that the price paid for
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