The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 106)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 106)

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in a discontinuous manner depending on the prevailing security conditions. Second,
there were merchants, city bankers (including some from Beirut), moneylenders,
big landowners, and notables. Here, it is important to point out that there was no
clear demarcation among them (e.g., a merchant could at the same time be a
moneylender).°° Third, there were the foreign religious settlers, namely German
Templars and Jews. The Templars’ agricultural settkements were never significant
in terms of number of people and area of land.*’ Also the new techniques and
methods of production in agriculture that they introduced did not spread outside
their colonies, given their self-imposed separation from the indigenous population.
However, their settlement proved significant in a different way. In the words of
Scholch, “These Templars proved to potential emulators that European colonies in
Palestine could, in fact, be established given adequate tenacity. They thus became a
model for colonization-minded Jews.”
As for Jewish European settlement, it became significant only after the
early 1880s, and is discussed separately below.
2.3.2 The Secondary Sector
This sector also experienced a noticeable growth, although not to the extent
of agriculture. This growth was the result of the mutually interacting processes of
This example is based on a study of the court records of Gaza for the late
1850s reproduced in Charles Issawi, The Fertile Crescent, 1800-1914, A
Documentary History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 443-4.
*7$cholch, 150-3.
Tbid., 152.
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