The Syrian Land in the 18th and 19th Century: The Common and the Specific in the Historical Experience

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Preface
I. Syria. The Land, the Term, the Identity
	Consciences Syriennes et Représentations Cartographiques à la Fin du XIXe Siècle et au Début du XXe Siècle
	Ottoman Policies Toward Syriain the 17th and 18th Centuries
	Greater Syria under Ottoman Constitutional Rule: Ottomanism, Arabism, Regionalism
	Syria and the Syrian Land: The 19th Century Roots of 20th Century Developments
	Changing Patterns of Economic Ties: The Syrian and Iraqi Provinces in the 18th and 19th Centuries
II. Elites and Political Power
	Continuity and Change in the Socio-Political Elite in Palestine During the late Ottoman Period
	Social Structure and Political Power in Acre in the 18th Century
	Changes in the Position and Role of the Syrian Ulama in the 18th and 19th Centuries
	Ruhi al-Khalidi 1864 - 1913: A Symbol of the Cultural Movement in Palestine Towards the End of the Ottoman Rule
III. Urban Life and Social Structure
	Groupes Sociaux et Geographie Urbaine à Alep au XVIIIe Siècle
	Aspects de la Vie Matérielle à Damas à la Fin du XVIIe Siècled’après les Inventaires après Décès
	Wealth, Privilege, and Family Structure: The ‘Askaris of 18th Century Damascus According to the Qassam ‘Askari Inheritance Records
	The Damascene Jewish Community in the Latter Decades of the Eighteenth Century: Aspects of Socio-Economic Life Based on the Registers of the Shari'a Courts
IV. Rural Life, Agricultural Production and Landownership
	Shareholders and the State: Representing the Village in the Late 19th Century Land Registers of the Southern Hawran
	Moneylending and Capital Flows from Nablus, Damascus and Jerusalem to Qada’ al-Salt in the Last Decades of Ottoman Rule
	Taxation And Agriculture In the District of Hama, 1800 - 1831; New Material From the Records Of the Religious Court
	Settlement Desertion in the Gezira between the 16th and 19th Century
	City and Countryside in a Traditional Setting The Case of Damascus in the First Quarter of the Eighteenth Century
	The Receding of the Christian Presence in the Holy Land; a 19th Century Sijill in the Light of 16th Century Tahrirs
List of Contributors
Indices