Index: Sources, D

• Diamonds and War — State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine — David De Vries, Diamonds and War: State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine (Berghahn Books, 2010; open access 2019), a history of Palestine’s diamond industry under the Mandate: the British colonial state and the De Beers cartel creating a Jewish-only, PDMA-monopoly industry under Ben-Ami, its wartime take-off, strike militancy, deregulation, crisis and reproduction under Israel. Read in full, PDF p.1-370 of 370.
• Settling for Less — The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin — Steven C. Dinero, Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin (2010): the Berghahn monograph on the state-planned resettlement of the Negev Bedouin into new towns since the 1960s, centred on Segev Shalom, arguing the programme was planned without Bedouin input to relocate them off the land and concentrate them, from the siyag concentration to the first seven towns’ socioeconomic crisis, closing with tourism narratives, a multi-future planning case and a May 2009 Postscript. Read in full, PDF p.1-250 of 250.
• Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 — Beshara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (1995): a social history of Ottoman Palestine from local sources, arguing commercial agriculture, a rural money economy and world-market ties preceded 1831 and 1882, with interior merchants as the linchpins of urban-rural networks. Read in full, lines 1-5900 of 5900, in parts 1-7 of 7 (Preface, Introduction, Chapters 1-6 with notes, Appendices, Plates, Glossary and Select Bibliography).
• The Jewish State: A Century Later — 1998. Alan Dowty, The Jewish State: A Century Later (University of California Press, 1998, updated with a new preface): whether a state can be both Jewish and democratic, answered by observation — Israeli democracy as informal consociational power-sharing rooted in the kehilla tradition, mamlachtiut’s civic drive and its limits, security as the filter through which all other issues pass, minority rights as its Achilles heel, the three cleavages and the occupation, and separation as the inevitable answer, closing with the Epilogue’s two Israels. Read in full: lines 1-5894 of 5894 in parts 1-8 of 8.