Divine,  Donna Robinson, Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder 1994, pp. 191-215. (with author’s permission, September 2025)

Donna Robinson Divine, Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, 1994. Rigorous analyses of the Palestinian Ottoman and Arab elites’s struggles to readjust their patronage-client systems from Ottoman rule to formal British administration (with permission of the author). This work is complemented by Porath’s Social Aspects of the Emergence of the Palestinian Arab National Movement and Socio-Economic Differences Preface Palestine’s Political Partition – the Mandate.

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