The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 184)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 184)

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During the nineteenth century, Palestine became increasingly
integrated into the capitalist world market, which dramatically
transformed its social structure. With the direct intervention of the
Ottoman state by the imposition of economic measures and a series of
land laws (see Chapter One), the process of transformation involved a
major shift in the local balance of forces. The Ottomans broke the power
of rural alliances, and shifted control over local administration and tax
collection from rural Sheikhs to an emerging class of urban notables.
Their political power eroded, many of the local Sheikhs subsequently
shifted their base of operations to the towns and merged with the class of
urban notables.
The notables took command over much of the agricultural production,
as well as seizing political power and control over rural areas. The urban
notable families and the emerging commercial bourgeoisie acquired vast
properties of land as a result of the Ottoman land laws. Subsequently,
many of the peasants were transformed into share-croppers working for
the large land owners, local and absentee.' (see Chapters One and Two).
The subordination of the local economy to the needs of the World
Market subsequently paralleled the subjugation of the peasantry. These
transformations were linked - beside the external factors - to the rise of
the leading urban classes. The notables who owned large tracts of land
engaged in money lending ? and tax-collecting, as well as dominating the
local administrative functions of the increasingly centralised government.
The other class was the emerging commercial bourgeoisie, which was
composed chiefly of Palestinians and Lebanese, and to a lesser extent
Jews and Europeans, who were representatives of banking and merchant
capital, but who also had large land holdings.
1 Alexander Scholch, "European Penetration". p.24.
2 These loans were with very high interest rates, forty or
fifty per cent a year. R. Tamimi, and M. Bah jat; Villayet
Beirut. Beirut, 1914, p.105. uo ns
3 Alexander Scholch, "European, Fenetration". p.23.
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

تاريخ

1990-10

المنشئ

Sonia Nimr

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رسائل ماجستير ودكتوراه (صفحات)

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