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)
This is a rigorous analysis of the struggles of Palestinian Ottoman and Arab elites to readjust their patronage-client systems from Ottoman rule to formal British administration. This work is complemented by Yehoshua Porath’s “Social Aspects of the Emergence of the Palestinian Arab National Movement” and “Socio-Economic Differences Preface Palestine’s Political Partition — the Mandate.”
