The History of Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period, 1700-1918 (A New Reading)

This innovative reappraisal of the history of Palestine from the eighteenth century to the First World War, provides a genuine alternative to existing standardized accounts. The book uncovers the various origins of modernity in Palestine, establishing that it did not come about as a result of specific events but rather as the cumulative result of political, economic, and social developments that originated in the eighteenth century and persisted to the end of the Ottoman period in 1918.