The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 29)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 29)

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£P 70,877,000 in 1947.”
1.3 Literature Review
William Faulkner asserted, “The past is not dead. It’s not even past.”*
The economic history of Palestine during the Mandate period (1918-1948) is
currently a contentious history because of the light it casts on our understanding of
the emergence of the state of Israel and the current views of the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict and ways to resolve it. The dominant approach to Mandate economic
history is that of dualism. Dualism asserts that during the Mandate there existed an
Arab economic sector and a Jewish economic sector. In some forms of dualism,
these sectors interact, and in others, these sectors lay side-by-side with little
consequential interactions. What is common among ali dualist approaches is an
emphasis on the historically unique and specific aspects of the development of the
Jewish sector. This contrasts sharply with the two current alternatives to dualism:
(a) the capitalist-expansion into a precapitalist-economy approach and (b) the
similar European-colonial-expansion approach. While the dualist approach
emphasizes the historically “unique” aspects of the Mandate period, the capitalist
and European expansionist approaches emphasize the commonalities between the
Mandate period and similar events at other times and places around the world.
From an ideological perspective, dualism sees the Mandate period as a unique
*Metzer, Divided Economy, Tables A.19, A.20, and A.22, 239-40, 242..
**William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (New York: Random House, 1951).
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