Changing Capitalist Structures and Settler-Colonial Land Purchases in Northern Palestine, 1897–1922

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ID8967069
AuthorsKristen Alff (0000-0002-8137-9125, North Carolina State University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume55
Issue4
Pages675-692
Publication date2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743823001290
OpenAlexW4388531407
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Estate · Judaism · Mandatory Palestine · Palestine · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society

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