Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900

Excellent!

This book documents the most accurate account of the region I have ever read. Others have attempted to do so but they were short of projecting the Micro and Macro dynamics of the ruling families of the area. Professor Doumani's description and approach gives you an insight to the daily lives, politics, and personalities of the time.Excellent Work, I do recommend this book for anyone interested in learning about Palestine.

This was an excellent book, well-structured, and clearly written. Doumani covers the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Palestine, analysing social developments and relations with the Ottoman Turks. He considers the changing production and trading patterns of the three main products produced by this region: textiles, olive oil, and soap. In so doing, he illustrates that far from being a provincial backwater of the Ottoman empire, Palestine was profoundly affected by developments in, and interactions with, the European economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was these developments which laid the foundations for further growth and advancement under the British mandate after WW1. For those who consider either that Palestine was backward, or that the Ottoman empire was decaying at the turn of the twentieth century, this work offers some very solid research to illustrate the opposite.