The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 308)
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During this time period, Palestine was integrated in the world market
through its trade with Europe. However, this integration had no direct impact, as
of yet, on the socioeconomic structure of the rural areas.
The peasants’ access to land was maintained in spite of the rise of large
holdings. Any loss of land that may have resulted from the latter, the extent of
which cannot be determined, was mitigated and compensated for by the Western
expansion of cultivation that not only benefited big landowners, merchants, and
moneylenders but also peasants and whole villages. The threat to peasants’ access
to land began to be threatened with the commoditization of land whose legal basis
was set by the Land Code of 1858 and the 1867 law and actualized by the
acquisition of land by European settlers. The demand for land by European settlers
was instrumental in the process of the commoditization of land. However, beyond
that impact, their relative small numbers and agricultural failures did not, as of
yet, have any major effect on the rural areas.
The relatively substantial growth in the three sectors of the economy,
urbanization, and exports, in addition to increased monetization and changes in the
legal aspects of land tenure before 1882, had important theoretical and historical
implications. On a theoretical level, it undermines the proposition held by some
dualists and others that so-called traditional agricultural societies cannot and do not
respond to “market signals” nor are they able to “modernize” without external
forces acting upon them. This observation is obviously not a new finding but
reinforces other historical studies on and theoretical explanations of the
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