Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831
ISBN: 9780231506038
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Acre (Israel) -- History -- 18th century; Acre (Israel) -- History -- 19th century; Palestine -- History -- 1799–1917;

An important contribution to the discussion of the Arab lands before European hegemony and a detailed study of a region and power center many scholars identify as the beginning of modern Palestinian history.


Thomas Philipp, professor of politics and modern history of the Middle East at Erlangen University in Germany, has taught at Harvard, Dartmouth, and Shiraz universities.
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