Abstract
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many areas of What is now described as the Third World experienced a broadly similar process of social and economic transformation as a result of their incorporation into the world capitalist system. Central to an examination of this process—whether it occurred as a result of colonisation or by the more indirect route of economic incorporation as a supplier of raw materials—is the analysis of its impact on local relations of production.
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Graham-Brown, S. (1982). The Political Economy of the Jabal Nablus, 1920–48. In: Owen, R. (eds) Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05700-9_3
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