![Acre : The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831 - Thomas Philipp](https://cdn.kobo.com/book-images/Images/2ad93d4f-ed73-4523-9e62-4d066ec6f927/300/300/False/image.jpg)
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Thomas Philipp's study of Acre combines the most extensive use to date of local Arabic sources with commercial records in Europe to shed light on a region and power center many identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history. The third largest city in eighteenth-century Syria—after Aleppo and Damascus—Acre was the capital of a politically and economically unique region on the Mediterranean coast that included what is today northern Israel and southern Lebanon. In the eighteenth century, Acre grew dramatically from a small fishing village to a fortified city of some 25,000 inhabitants. Cash crops (first cotton, then grain) made Acre the center of trade and political power and linked it inextricably to the world economy. Acre was markedly different from other cities in the region: its urban society consisted almost exclusively of immigrants seeking their fortune.
The rise and fall of Acre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Thomas Philipp argues, must be seen against the background of the decay of central power in the Ottoman empire. Destabilization of imperial authority allowed for the resurfacing of long-submerged traditional power centers and the integration of Arab regions into European and world economies. This larger imperial context proves the key to addressing many questions about the local history of Acre and its peripheries. How were the new sources of wealth and patterns of commerce that remade Acre reconciled with traditional forms of political power and social organization? Were these forms really traditional? Or did entirely new classes develop under the circumstances of an immigrant society and new commercial needs? And why did Acre, after such propitious beginnings as a center of export trade and political and military power strong enough to defy Napoleon, give way to the dazzling rise of Beirut in the nineteenth century? For centuries the object of the Crusader's fury and the trader's envy, Acre is here restored to its full significance at a crucial moment in Middle Eastern history.
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Introduction
1. Southwest Syria in the 18th Century: Sea Lanes, Highways, and Demography
2. The Politics of Acre
3. Trade: Local Rulers and the World Economy
4. Government, Military, and Administration
5. The Society and its Structure in Acre
Concluding Observations
A. The population of Acre, 1700--1880
B. Trade: Tables and Figures
C. Administrative Positions and Their Occupants
D. Maps
ISBN: 9780231506038
ISBN-10: 0231506031
Series: History and Society of the Modern Middle East
Published: 27th March 2002
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
For Ages: 22+ years old
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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