Book
Palestinians: from peasants to revolutionaries : a people's history
Zed Press • (3) • Published In 1979 • Pages: viii, 206
By: Sayigh, Rosemary.
Abstract
This is your classic, albeit a little polemical, history of the Palestinian people, depicting their fate under Zionism. Sayigh documents the Palestinian way of life and society under the Ottomans, the impact of the British occupation and its patronage of Zionism, the Jaffa (1921) and Jerusalem (1929) riots, the uprooting of peasants in the 1930s, the Palestinian Rebellion of 1936-1939, the War of 1948 and the forced expulsion of Palestinians; the 1967 war and failure of Arab states to come to the aid of the Palestinians, life in the refugee camps of Lebanon, and the refugee revolt and civil war. Sayigh documents the history of land alienation, the collusion between Britain and Zionists, the arming of the latter, and their planned systematic destruction of Arab villages. She identifies with the plight of the Palestinian peasants, the present occupants of the refugee camps, and documents the class conflict within Palestinian society and the hostility between Palestinians and other Arab states.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field Date
- 1975-1978
- Coverage Date
- 1856-1978
- Coverage Place
- Israel, Occupied Territories, and Lebanon
- Notes
- recorded by Rosemary Sayigh from interviews with camp Palestinians in Lebanon ; with an introduction by Noam Chomsky
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-206)
- LCCN
- 79318663
- LCSH
- Palestinian Arabs