Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
55,4 (2023) 675-692
Keywords:
Land settlement History 1882-1917
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Capitalism
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Real property
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Land tenure
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World War, 1914-1918
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Palestinian Arabs Land tenure
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Zionism
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Eretz Israel Economic conditions 1517-1917, Ottoman period
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Eretz Israel Politics and government 1882-1917
Abstract:
By tracing Zionist and German Templer efforts to buy arable private property in Palestine between 1897 and 1922, I show the ways in which the changing balance of Ottoman and Levantine forces over land and labor—as well as political and economic institutions and social structures—facilitated settler-colonialism in northern Palestine. In this article, I examine official records of the Ottoman state, Jewish organizations, and Levantine, Jewish, and Templer real estate papers. I argue that changing capitalist practices in northern Palestine, driven especially by interactions of Beirut-based companies with the changing global capitalist market, facilitated settler-colonialism in the region. Specifically, Ottoman state-sponsored violence during World War I increased peasant dispossessions in the fertile region of northern Palestine, already in progress since at least the mid-19th century, making settler colonies possible.
DOI:
10.1017/S0020743823001290
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