The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 112)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 112)

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However, one important change in the composition of exports was that by
1899, according to one account, there was no more wheat surplus for export.”
This may have been a consequence of population growth.
There was also a substantial growth in imports. The most important imports
were coffee, rice, sugar, and cotton-manufactured items, but to a lesser extent
included lumber and other building material, petroleum, and luxury and fashion
items.’”* Although remaining absolutely small, there was a rapid increase in
imports of motors and machinery.”
In 1874,®° the imports of Jaffa amounted to £P 146,000. For 1874-1877,
the value of average annual imports was £P 212,000, and by 1879-1881, it
increased to £P 337,000.*' For 1883-1887, imports fell to an annual average of
£P 264,000, but afterwards continuously rose so that by 1908-1912, it increased to
£P 1,376,000 including imports of Jaffa, Haifa, and Acre. In 1913, imports of
Jaffa alone amounted to £P 1,313,000.” In the period 1856-1882, most of the
™Issawi, “Trade of Jaffa,” 44; this is according to a report by the British vice
council.
Scholch, 108-9.
“Issawi, “Trade of Jaffa,” 46.
Scholch points out that there were no figures prior to 1874 since most of the
imports arrived in Beirut and were duty-paid there, and then transported overland
to Palestine; Scholch, 107.
Calculated from figures given in Owen, Middle East, Table 32, 176.
“Owen, Middle East, Table 68, 265.
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