Palestinian Society and Politics / / Joel S. Migdal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Migdal, Joel S.,
• MitwirkendeR: Baer, Gabriel,; Heller, Mark,; Miller, Ylana N.,; Mishal, Shaul,; Robinson Divine, Donna,; Shamir, Shimon,; Stein, Kenneth W.,; Taqqu, Rachelle,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University ; 103
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

Initially published in Moscow in 1950 following the author's death, this book contains the first chapters of a large monograph Krylov planned entitled The foundations of physical statistics," his doctoral thesis on "The processes of relaxation of statistical systems and the criterion of mechanical instability," and a small paper entitled "On the description of exhaustively complete experiments."Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Contributors -- Book I: The Effects of Regime Policies on Social Cohesion and Fragmentation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Two Faces of Ottoman Rule: Palestinian Society before World War I -- Chapter 2. Direct Contact with the West: The British Mandate -- Chapter 3. Dispersal and Annexation: Jordanian Rule -- Chapter 4. Israeli Military Rule: Continuity at the Macro-Level -- Chapter 5. The Impact on Stratification of Employment in Israel: Change at the Micro-Level -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Field Research in an Occupied Territory -- Book II: Studies in Continuity and Change under Four Regimes -- Introduction -- Part One: The Palestinian Village -- Chapter 1. The Office and Functions of the Village Mukhtar -- Chapter 2. Administrative Policy in Rural Palestine: The Impact of British Norms on Arab Community Life, 1920-1948 -- Chapter 3. West Bank Refugees-Between Camp and Society -- Part Two: Palestinian Urban Elites -- Chapter 4. Conflictual Pressures and Cooperative Interests: Observations on West Bank-Amman Political Relations, 1949-1967 -- Chapter 5. Politics and Social Change in the West Bank Since 1967 -- Chapter 6. The Dialectics of Palestinian Politics -- Part Three: Modes of Interaction between Elites and Masses -- Chapter 7. Legal Protection and Circumvention of Rights for Cultivators in Mandatory Palestine -- Chapter 8. Peasants into Workmen: Internal Labor Migration and the Arab Village Community under the Mandate -- Index