State Lands and Rural Development in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1948
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781902210759
Subjects: Public lands; Land settlement; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Rural development; Real Estate - General; Palestine; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Development economics; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; International relations; Rural communities; Second World War, 1939-1945; General; 20th century; History
Description: "The league of Nations' Mandate for Palestine imposed two duties on Britain with regard to land: to closely settle Jews on state and waste lands, and to promote closer settlement, intensive cultivation and rural development in the interests of all the people of Palestine. Britain's failure to live up to Jewish expectations provoked and sustained Zionist complaint throughout the entire period of the Mandate. This books examines British pledges and performance; Jewish hopes, disappointments and achievements; and Arab opposition and loss. It also discusses the problems that needed to be addressed in order to revitalize the rural sector and assesses the impact of British initiatives and Jewish land acquisition, settlement and example on Arab Palestine."--Jacket.