The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 8)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 8)

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ABSTRACT
This study investigates and analyzes the nature and extent of rural change in
Palestine during the Mandate. It inquires into the changes in taxation, debt, land
tenure, the techniques of production, and agricultural production. A unifying theme
and emphasis, however, are on the more fundamental changes in the social
relations of production in the rural areas. A unifying theme and emphasis are done
in the context of the interaction among colonial government policy, European
settler capitalism, the structure and internal dynamics of the rural areas, and by the
further integration of the country into the world capitalist market.
This study is an effort to add to the relatively few studies on the social and
economic transformation of Palestine. Whereas existing studies have generated
some insights, this study shows that the approaches used, especially the “dual-
economy” one, are inadequate for a fuller understanding of the process of
socioeconomic change, especially in the rural areas. This study uses the alternative
“structural/historical” approach. In addition, the existing studies have not dealt
specifically with the question of peasant differentiation and its accompanying
dispossession and pauperization. Some of those studies have either dealt with
agriculture and rural areas at a macroeconomic level without addressing the
differential impact that socioeconomic change had on the different strata of rural
inhabitants or concluded, given the overall growth and development in agriculture,
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The Dispossession of the Peasantry

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Riyad Mousa

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