Description: Challenging the claim that Palestine's peasant economy progressed during the 1920s and 1930s, Amos Nadan skillfully integrates a wide variety of sources to demonstrate that the period was actually one of deterioration on both the macro (per capita) and micro levels.
Brief description: Amos Nadan is a senior researcher at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University and at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Review Quotes: Drawing on a wide range of sources, from official documents to oral accounts by surviving participants, Amos Nadan has written an important new book on the Arab rural economy in mandate Palestine. The pattern of overall economic deterioration that Nadan charts challenges many of the conclusions arrived at by economic historians in recent years.--Martin Bunton "International History Review" (3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM)