Amos Nadan
Biographic Data
| ID | 142953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amos Nadan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amos |
| FAMILY NAME | Nadan |
| SIGNATURE | NADAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7471-1396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Are population policies in Arab countries largely ineffective? Past and present perspectives
This essay explores two types of population policies common in Arab countries: pro-natalist policies, aimed at encouraging higher birth rates, and anti-natalist policies, aimed at reducing birth rates. Determining their practical impact is often challenging due to the lack of control or comparison groups. However, historical policy patterns in two groups of Arab countries over the past six decades offer a unique opportunity for comparison. Betwee…
Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 2023
The State of Israel was established in 1948 on the territories of Mandate Palestine, a British colonial territory previously ruled by the Ottoman Empire up to 1918.Continuity existed between these regimes.Specifically, in relation to the current study, financial transactions in one era were treated as accountable in following era/s.The Ottoman legal system gradually reformed from 1839 onwards, and for Palestine the relevant year is 1841 (between …
The route from informal peasant landownership to formal tenancy and eviction in Palestine, 1800s–1947
Exogenous intervention in land ownership began with few court judgments prior to the weighty Land Code in 1858; but it was especially this law which officially overturned the status quo by permitting registration of cultivated land in the names of non-cultivators. This changed the rules of the game for the peasantry in Palestine. Informally, yet practically, peasants had been the de facto owners of almost all cultivated lands in Palestine for gen…
Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c . 1850s–1940s
The unfounded belief that there was a peasant commune in the Levant very similar to the Russian mir , and that it was inefficient, precluded historians from understanding the true role of the institution of mushā ʿ in this region. The mushā ʿ land title represented the attachment of a particular community to specific plots of land. In this context, ‘community’ often meant nuclear and extended families in suprahouseholds, as well as the entire vil…
Revisiting the anti- mushā ʿ reforms in the levant
The historiography of the abolition of repartitioned mushāʿ—the practice of parcels substitution among cultivators in peasant communities—is mistakenly traced back to the Ottoman Land Code of 1858. Neither that Code, nor Ottoman land registration, attempted the abolition of this type of mushāʿ. It was instead the abolition ordinances of the British and French Mandatory governments during the 1920s which began a conflict over land titles. The comm…
Economic Aspects of the Peasant-Led National Palestinian Revolt, 1936-39
This paper examines economic aspects of the Arab Revolt of 1936-39, which was, beyond doubt, a national Palestinian revolt. It is suggested that, while the rebels, most of whom were peasants, acted collectively for national causes, many of them also perceived personal economic and rural collective interests in participating and acted to pursue economic and national goals simultaneously. This analysis helps explain why peasants comprised the main …
Merchants and peasants in the Nazareth region, 1922 – 47
In Nazareth, the wholesale merchants of agricultural commodities made every effort to acquire crops during harvest time, when commodity prices were at their lowest, and to sell them a few months later when demand (and prices) had increased. To facilitate this, merchants established close economic ties with peasant proprietors, in particular by providing them with a ‘safety net’ in lean years in the form of loans at comparatively attractive rates.…
The Palestinian Peasant Economy under the Mandate
The Competitive Advantage of Moneylenders Over Banks in Rural Palestine
According to the British Government in Mandate Palestine, the tendency of the fallahin (Arab peasants) to "strategic default" and the monopolistic power of local moneylenders led to high interest lending in rural areas. The government sought to remedy this by assisting banks in collecting bad debts, by guaranteeing some bank loans and by imposing the maximum legal interest rate. However, the colonial perception was incorrect. Defaults were usuall…
Colonial Misunderstanding of an Efficient Peasant Institution
The accepted wisdom is that the mushā in Palestine was an archaic system that blocked any chance of development, since no one had any inducement to improve his land. But this study of the mushā, as part of a set of institutions, contradicts that wisdom. The mushā in Palestine was an efficient, dynamic economic institution that facilitated investment. There was no need for land reform, which only proved destructive to the economy of the fallāhīn. …
Colonial Misunderstanding of an Efficient Peasant Institution
The accepted wisdom is that the mushā in Palestine was an archaic system that blocked any chance of development, since no one had any inducement to improve his land. But this study of the mushā, as part of a set of institutions, contradicts that wisdom. The mushā in Palestine was an efficient, dynamic economic institution that facilitated investment. There was no need for land reform, which only proved destructive to the economy of the fallāhīn. …
Are population policies in Arab countries largely ineffective? Past and present perspectives
This essay explores two types of population policies common in Arab countries: pro-natalist policies, aimed at encouraging higher birth rates, and anti-natalist policies, aimed at reducing birth rates. Determining their practical impact is often challenging due to the lack of control or comparison groups. However, historical policy patterns in two groups of Arab countries over the past six decades offer a unique opportunity for comparison. Betwee…
Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c . 1850s–1940s
The unfounded belief that there was a peasant commune in the Levant very similar to the Russian mir , and that it was inefficient, precluded historians from understanding the true role of the institution of mushā ʿ in this region. The mushā ʿ land title represented the attachment of a particular community to specific plots of land. In this context, ‘community’ often meant nuclear and extended families in suprahouseholds, as well as the entire vil…
Colonial Misunderstanding of an Efficient Peasant Institution
The accepted wisdom is that the mushā in Palestine was an archaic system that blocked any chance of development, since no one had any inducement to improve his land. But this study of the mushā, as part of a set of institutions, contradicts that wisdom. The mushā in Palestine was an efficient, dynamic economic institution that facilitated investment. There was no need for land reform, which only proved destructive to the economy of the fallāhīn. …
The Competitive Advantage of Moneylenders Over Banks in Rural Palestine
According to the British Government in Mandate Palestine, the tendency of the fallahin (Arab peasants) to "strategic default" and the monopolistic power of local moneylenders led to high interest lending in rural areas. The government sought to remedy this by assisting banks in collecting bad debts, by guaranteeing some bank loans and by imposing the maximum legal interest rate. However, the colonial perception was incorrect. Defaults were usuall…
The Palestinian Peasant Economy under the Mandate
Merchants and peasants in the Nazareth region, 1922 – 47
In Nazareth, the wholesale merchants of agricultural commodities made every effort to acquire crops during harvest time, when commodity prices were at their lowest, and to sell them a few months later when demand (and prices) had increased. To facilitate this, merchants established close economic ties with peasant proprietors, in particular by providing them with a ‘safety net’ in lean years in the form of loans at comparatively attractive rates.…
Economic Aspects of the Peasant-Led National Palestinian Revolt, 1936-39
This paper examines economic aspects of the Arab Revolt of 1936-39, which was, beyond doubt, a national Palestinian revolt. It is suggested that, while the rebels, most of whom were peasants, acted collectively for national causes, many of them also perceived personal economic and rural collective interests in participating and acted to pursue economic and national goals simultaneously. This analysis helps explain why peasants comprised the main …
Revisiting the anti- mushā ʿ reforms in the levant
The historiography of the abolition of repartitioned mushāʿ—the practice of parcels substitution among cultivators in peasant communities—is mistakenly traced back to the Ottoman Land Code of 1858. Neither that Code, nor Ottoman land registration, attempted the abolition of this type of mushāʿ. It was instead the abolition ordinances of the British and French Mandatory governments during the 1920s which began a conflict over land titles. The comm…
Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c . 1850s–1940s
The unfounded belief that there was a peasant commune in the Levant very similar to the Russian mir , and that it was inefficient, precluded historians from understanding the true role of the institution of mushā ʿ in this region. The mushā ʿ land title represented the attachment of a particular community to specific plots of land. In this context, ‘community’ often meant nuclear and extended families in suprahouseholds, as well as the entire vil…
The route from informal peasant landownership to formal tenancy and eviction in Palestine, 1800s–1947
Exogenous intervention in land ownership began with few court judgments prior to the weighty Land Code in 1858; but it was especially this law which officially overturned the status quo by permitting registration of cultivated land in the names of non-cultivators. This changed the rules of the game for the peasantry in Palestine. Informally, yet practically, peasants had been the de facto owners of almost all cultivated lands in Palestine for gen…
Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 2023
The State of Israel was established in 1948 on the territories of Mandate Palestine, a British colonial territory previously ruled by the Ottoman Empire up to 1918.Continuity existed between these regimes.Specifically, in relation to the current study, financial transactions in one era were treated as accountable in following era/s.The Ottoman legal system gradually reformed from 1839 onwards, and for Palestine the relevant year is 1841 (between …
Are population policies in Arab countries largely ineffective? Past and present perspectives
This essay explores two types of population policies common in Arab countries: pro-natalist policies, aimed at encouraging higher birth rates, and anti-natalist policies, aimed at reducing birth rates. Determining their practical impact is often challenging due to the lack of control or comparison groups. However, historical policy patterns in two groups of Arab countries over the past six decades offer a unique opportunity for comparison. Betwee…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Peasant (7 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · History (4 works)