"Palestinian Nationalism and the Struggle for National Self-Determination," in
Berch Berberoglu, ed.,
The National Question
(Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1995), pp. 15-35
by Gordon Welty
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435 USA
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By far the majority of Palestinians in the nineteenth century, perhaps over 80 %, were peasants (fellahin)./2/ Some cultivation was based on sharecropping, with a division of the agricultural
product between peasant and t...