RARE collection of articles on 19th-century and pre-WW1 Ottoman Palestine, divided thematically into four sections: 1) on demographic and urban development by U.O.Schmelz and Ruth Kark; 2) on changes in the village and in agriculture by Ya`akov Firestone and Yossi Ben-Artzi; 3) on historical development of the industrial and services branches by Shmuel Avitsur, Walter Pinhas Pick, Nachum T. Gross and Alex Carmel; 4) on questions in the sphere of fiscal developments by Oded Peri, Gabriel Baer and Clinton Bailey. Included are studies on Arab and Jewish as well as nomadic, rural and urban societies, with examination of the consequences of economic activity in the private and public sectors and of local and foreign entrepreneurs, the changes that occurred in traditional institutions such as the Muslim waqf, and the introduction of new economic institutions such as the modern bank and the railway. 240x160mm. XVI+348 pages. Black cloth Hardcover with green dust-jacket. Silver lettering on spine. Jacket rubbed. Jacket edges/corners slightly bumped/wrinkled. This extremely rare book, of interest to historians of Ottoman Empire and particularly Palestine, is in very good condition.