During the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries, the city of Nablus was Palestine s principal trade and manufacturing center.[1] It also anchored dozens of villages located in the middle of the hill regions which stretched north south from the Galilee to Hebron and wh…
Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandi…
Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandi…
