TY - BOOK ID - 30951217 TI - Men of capital : scarcity and economy in mandate Palestine PY - 2016 SN - 9780804796729 0804796726 0804792887 0804796610 9780804792882 9780804796613 PB - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - E-books KW - Palestinian Arabs KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Economic conditions KW - Economic aspects KW - Palestine KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - Arab Palestinians KW - Arabs KW - Arabs in Palestine KW - Palestinians KW - Ethnology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30951217 AB - Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930's and 1940's through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so doing, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world of Arab thought and social life, moving attention away from the limiting debates of Zionist–Palestinian conflict. Reading Palestinian business periodicals, records, and correspondence, Sherene Seikaly reveals how capital accumulation was central to the conception of the ideal "social man." Here we meet a diverse set of characters—the man of capital, the frugal wife, the law-abiding Bedouin, the unemployed youth, and the abundant farmer—in new spaces like the black market, cafes and cinemas, and the idyllic Arab home. Seikaly also traces how British colonial institutions and policies regulated wartime austerity regimes, mapping the shortages of basic goods—such as the vegetable crisis of 1940—to the broader material disparities among Palestinians and European Jews. Ultimately, she shows that the economic is as central to social management as the political, and that an exclusive focus on national claims and conflicts hides the more complex changes of social life in Palestine. ER -