Sherene Seikaly. Men of Capital

The history of the Palestinian Arabs under the British mandate is by now the subject of a large literature. Yehoshua Porath, Subhi Yasin, and Ann Mosely Lesch produced pioneering works on national identity, popular mobilization, and rebellion in the period prior to 1939, and Issa Khalaf examined the politics of the 1940s. Alongside these works emphasizing political history, Jacob Norris, Amos Nadan, Roza I. M. El-Eini, and Jacob Metzer have written important explorations on the economy of mandate Palestine and on British development policies and their consequences. Ellen Fleischmann has produced a foundational study of the Palestinian women’s movement, and recently Andrea L. Stanton has pioneered the topic of broadcast media during the mandate. Sherene Seikaly takes scholarship on the Palestinian Arabs under the mandate in a new direction with her highly original and deeply researched Men of Capital. The book’s significance, however, extends well beyond its contributions to the study of mandate Palestine. Men of Capital joins the best of recent scholarship in the history of development, late imperialism, and the immediate antecedents to decolonization.

Ancient history · Capital (architecture) · Economic history · Mandate · Mandatory Palestine · Palestine · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · African history and culture studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts