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The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850–1882

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Alexander Schölch
Alexander Schölch
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University of ErlangenWest Germany
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In my contribution to a volume edited by Roger Owen, I have studied the economic development of Palestine from the Crimean War up to the beginnings of the first Jewish Aliya. In this article I propose to investigate the concomitant demographic development of Palestine, that is, of the Livās of Jerusalem, Nablus/Balqā', and 'Akkā, during roughly the same period.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , November 1985 , pp. 485 - 505
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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1 Schölch, Alexander, “European Penetration and the Economic Development of Palestine, 1856–82,” in Owen, Roger, ed., Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London, 1982), pp. 10–87. The present article presents some further results of a study on the socio-political and economic development of Palestine during the period 1856–1882, which was financed by the Volkswagen Foundation.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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37 The general statements in this conclusion are derived from a larger study of the economic and socio-political development of Palestine; see note I and my forthcoming book, Palästina im Umbruch 1856–1882: Untersuchungen zur wirtschaftlichen und sozio-politischen Entwicklung.Google Scholar