Acre : the rise and fall of a Palestinian city, 1730-1831 /
Thomas Philipp's study of Acre combines the most extensive use to date of local Arabic sources with commercial records in Europe to shed light on a region and power center many identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. The third largest city in eighteenth-century Syria?after Alep...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2001
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| Series: | History and society of the modern Middle East series
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Table of Contents:
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. SOUTHWEST SYRIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: HIGHWAYS, SEA LANES, AND POPULATIONS; 2. THE POLITICS OF ACRE; 3. TRADE: LOCAL RULERS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY; 4. GOVERNMENT: THE MILITARY AND ADMINISTRATION; 5. SOCIETY AND ITS STRUCTURE IN ACRE; CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS; Appendix A: THE POPULATION OF ACRE; Appendix B: TRADE: TABLES AND FIGURES; Appendix C: ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND THEIR OCCUPANTS; Appendix D: MAPS; NOTES; TRANSLATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX