Social and Cultural History of Palestine

Dr Sarah Irving is lecturer in modern Middle Eastern history at Staffordshire University, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and editor of Contemporary Levant, a journal of the British Council for Research in the Levant.

This collection of essays showcases the latest and most innovative scholarship on late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine: a new generation of historians has taken up Tamari's social history mantle with great gusto, bringing into the limelight an array of Palestinian actors previously silenced in the historical record.

• List of Figures The Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The Social and Cultural in the Historiography of Mandate Palestine Sarah Irving 1 Jaffa before the Nakba: Palestine’s Thriving City, 1799–1948 Mahmoud Yazbak 2 To ‘Strengthen Mediterranean Resistance’? Albert Antebi and the Porous Boundaries of Cultural Identification in Ottoman Jerusalem, 1896–1919 Karène Sanchez Summerer 3 Tales out of School: Palestinian Students in a Jewish Institution, 1870–1937 Dotan Halevy and Amin Khalaf 4 Costumes and the Image: Authenticity, Identity and Photography in Palestine Sary Zananiri 5 ‘The Reconstruction of Palestine’: Geographical Imaginaries after World War I Nadi Abusaada 6 Decolonising the Social History of Rural Palestinian Women: The Economic Activity of Rural Women in Galilee during the British Mandate Rawda Morkus-Makhoul 7 Ethnographies of Madness: Père Antonin Jaussen, Shaykh Sa’ad al-Din and the Management of Mental Illness in Mandate-era Nablus Chris Sandal-Wilson 8 ‘Irrespective of Community or Creed’: Charity, Solidarity and the 1927 Jericho Earthquake Sarah Irving 9 Photographing the Palestinian Nakba: Rethinking the Role of Photography in Historical WritingIssam NassarIndex