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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Palestinian Christian Elites from the Late Ottoman Era to the British Mandate -- Chapter 2 Reinventing the Millet System: British Imperial Policy and the Making of Communal Politics -- Chapter 3 The Arab Orthodox Movement -- Chapter 4 Appropriating Sectarianism: The Brief Emergence of Pan- Christian Communalism, 1929–1936 -- Chapter 5 Palestinian Arab Episcopalians under Mandate -- Epilogue: The Consequences of Sectarianism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

AbstractIn the late 1930s, the first independent Arab banks in Palestine, the Arab Bank and the Arab Agricultural Bank, sued customers who had defaulted on loans in an attempt to maintain solvency. Their indebted customers, unable to pay, fought back to prevent their lands from being foreclosed and sold to Zionist buyers. Each party claimed that its position was consistent with, indeed essential to, the anti-Zionist nationalist cause. The story of these pioneering Arab banks and their legal battles with their customers in the wake of the 1936-1939 revolt provides insight into Arab financial life in Mandate Palestine. It reveals the banks' struggles to survive; complicates notions of Arab-Palestinian landlessness and indebtedness; and argues that political and economic exigencies, not reductive notions of collaboration or patriotism, produced the banks' antagonistic relationship with their customers, whereby the survival of one came at the expense of the other.

Using the 1929 Midwives Ordinance as an analytical lens, this article argues that the Mandate government's treatment of Palestinian midwives reflected Britain's broader aims to control colonial subjects and to institutionalize health care, perpetuating British constructs of gender and class in the process. It claims that in restricting midwives' autonomy, the administration not only infringed on their livelihoods but curtailed Palestinian women's economic opportunities. While Palestinian midwives successfully used a number of creative tactics to resist government attempts to control them, the restrictions placed on them limited general access to health care, especially in rural areas of Palestine. In an era of unprecedented state reach, however, officials were far more concerned with monitoring midwives than with expanding Palestinians' access to much-needed health care, ultimately privileging the Yishuv in this sphere, as in so many others.

Selling radio, selling radios : advertising sets in mandate Palestine -- Peasants into Palestinians : rural and school broadcasting -- Broadcasting a nationalist modernity : the PBS Arabic section -- Putting religion on the radio -- Claiming the PBS : whose national radio?

AbstractThis article examines the work experiences of Palestinian Arab nurses to illuminate the operation of the colonial public health regime in Mandate Palestine. Analyzing nurses' work in the clinics of town and village communities and their relationships with the colonial government's Department of Health, it argues that these nurses were social and political interlocutors in the system of public health, which depended upon their intimate relationships with local communities. By pulling these women out of the archives, this article complicates received wisdom among scholars about development, expertise, and the chronology of welfare. Telling the stories of these women also provides a ground-level view of the operation of daily governance in Mandate Palestine and the lived social, political, and economic realities of an often-overlooked cadre of Palestinian workers from that period.