State lands and rural development in mandatory Palestine, 1920-1948 / Warwick P.N. Tyler.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Tyler, Warwick P. N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Public lands--Palestine--History--20th century.
• Land settlement--Palestine--History--20th century.
• Land settlement.
• History.
• Rural development--Palestine--History--20th century.
• Jews--Palestine--History--20th century.
• Jews.
• Palestinian Arabs--History--20th century.
• Palestinian Arabs.
• Rural development.
• Public lands.

Physical Description:

vii, 260 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brighton ; Portland, Ore. : Sussex Academic Press, 2001.

Summary:

The League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine imposed two duties on Britain as the administering power with regard to land: to closely settle Jews on state and waste lands (Article 6), and to promote closer settlement, intensive cultivation and rural development in the interests of all the people of Palestine (Article 11). Britain's failure to live up to Jewish expectations in these two areas provoked and sustained Zionist complaint throughout the entire period of the Mandate. This book examines British pledges and performance; Jewish hopes, disappointments and achievements; and Arab opposition and loss. Based on original research at British, Israeli and Zionist archives, this book also discusses the problems that needed to be addressed in order to revitalize the rural sector in Palestine and assesses the impact of British initiatives and Jewish land acquisition, settlement and example on Arab rural society and agriculture.

Contents:

• Part 1 The State Lands Issue
• 1 The State Lands of Palestine 21
• 2 The Beisan Lands 49
• 3 The Huleh Lands 81
• 4 The Athlit, Kabbara and Caesarea Concession 117
• Part 2 Rural Development
• 5 The Preservation and Improvement of the Natural Environment 149
• 6 The Improvement of Arab Agriculture 160
• 7 Major Structural Change and Investment in the Rural Sector 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-251) and index.

ISBN:

1902210751

OCLC:

45699095