Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine - Hardcover

Seikaly, Sherene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804792887 ISBN 13: 9780804792882

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2015

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"Sherene Seikaly's critical history of Palestinian economic agents and thinkers is an exemplary instance of new approaches to political economy. Eschewing both nostalgic mourning and nationalist frames, Men of Capital will inform and instruct debates about the regional roots of economic practices and the institutional infrastructure of economic imaginaries across twentieth century Middle Eastern studies." -- Manu Goswami * New York University * "Men of Capital is a remarkable achievement. Sherene Seikaly introduces us to the class of Palestinian capitalists, a group too often overlooked in histories of Palestine and Israel, and brilliantly puts them into the context of their time, exploring their group consciousness, hopes, and aspirations. Examining their failures to break through the iron ceiling of Britain's colonial commitment to the Zionist project, Seikaly offers a powerful critique of the strait-jacket of settler colonialism." -- Rashid Khalidi * Columbia University * "Men of Capital is a breathtaking study of the complex work of making 'economy' in pre-1948 Palestine, filled with unforgettable characters striving for economic renewal in commerce and in the home. Sherene Seikaly reveals a Palestine being remade, bit by bit, into distinctly 'Jewish' versus 'Arab' worlds, and gives us entirely new ways of thinking about Israel/Palestine and colonialism-all wrapped up in an unstoppable read." -- Julia Elyachar, University of California * Irvine" * Sherene Seikaly's Men of Capital redraws the class map of British Mandate Palestine and expands ongoing efforts to rethink the Nahda. This work clearly demonstrates how the schemes used to rationalize governance under the pressures of revolt and war ultimately betray the incoherence, ineffectiveness, and racism of British rule." -- Joel Beinin * Stanford University *

Reseña del editor:

Men of Capital reveals how Palestinian businessmen and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, the nation, the home, and the body.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0804792887
• ISBN 13: 9780804792882
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274