Haifa : transformation of a Palestinian Arab society, 1918-1939
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Haifa : transformation of a Palestinian Arab society, 1918-1939
Tauris, 1995
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Bibliography: p. 267-275
Includes index
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Description
British mandatory rule created a new infrastructure of urban life in Haifa and attracted a large number of Arabs to the city. But while the development of Zionist economic enterprises was facilitated and the Jewish immigrant population grew, the spheres in which the Arab population could develop were limited. May Seikaly considers the social and economic structure of Haifa before 1918 and examines the process of change which took place. She looks at the attempts made by the Arab community to cope with increasingly unfavourable economic and political conditions, showing how the impotence of the leadership, hardship and dislocating conditions, caused popular grievances and frustration and culminated in the revolt of 1936-39, which had its breeding ground in Haifa.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Haifa - the town in 1918: physical characteristics of Haifa in 1918
- demography and distribution of Haifa's communities
- the economic, social and political structure of Haifa's society in 1918. Part 2 British policy and the development of Haifa: the demographic transformation of Haifa 1918-39
- the administrative set-up - the municipality and its functions
- town planning - policies and the new quarters
- British plans and projects. Part 3 The evolution of the economic sectors: industry - a Jewish monopoly
- banking and commerce
- land and housing policy
- labour policy. Part 4 The political transformation of Haifa's Arab community: prologue
- transition into the British orbit
- the phase of political fragmentation
- radicalization of the national forces
- conclusion - the path to revolution.
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