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- Part 1 - Chapter One. The Making Of A Province - Part II: Everydar Politics Chapter Two. Making Spaces: Regionalisation Through Everyday Practices Chapter Three. The Highlands Chapter Four. The Coastal Plains - Part III: Elite Politics Chapter Five. Central And Local Elites: A Conceptual Framework Chapter Six. Local Elites Chapter Seven. Central Elites - Part IV: Widening The Scope Of Politics Chapter Eight. The Infrastructure Of The Public Sphere Chapter Nine. Palestine As A Social Space Chapter Ten. Repercussions Of Empire-Wide Developments And The Politicisation Of Everyday Concerns Chapter Eleven. Government And Opposition In The Public Sphere

During the era of Sultan Abdülhamid II, modern state institutions were established in Palestine, while national identities had not yet developed. Hamidian Palestine explores how the inhabitants of the Ottoman District of Jerusalem interacted with each other and how they organised their interests in a historical moment before ‘Arabs’ and ‘Jews’ emerged as the central political categories in the country. Based on a wide range of Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew sources, the book examines the social and political relations of Palestinians from a wide variety of perspectives. By situating individual case studies within larger contexts such as modernisation, regionalisation and state-building, it allows Palestinian society to be compared with other local societies within the Ottoman Empire and beyond.