Introduction Chapter I: Palestine as a Transit Country: International Highways, Commercial Geography and the Ancient Trade Routes of Palestine Chapter 2: Ancient Obsidian and Copper Regional Trade Systems: The Mining Industries and Urbanisation in Ancient Palestine and Egypt (From the late Neolithic Ages to the Iron Age) Chapter 3: Cities of Spice, Frankincense and Aromatics: The Trans-Arabian Incense Trade and the Transformation of the Palestinian Cities of the Naqab (Classical and Late Antiquity) Chapter 4: The Myth of the Single ''Silk Road'' and the Palestine Red Sea Silk Route from China: The Rise of the Maritime Trade Route of Iotabe-Aylah-Elusa-Gaza and the Ghassanid Arabs of Palaestina Tertia Chapter 5: Elite Fashion, Linen, Silk and Purple Dye: The Palestine Clothing Industry and a Tale of Five Textile Cities in Antiquity Chapter 6: The Christian Revolution and Palestinian Wines on Western Tables: Monasteries, Urban Boom and the Golden Age of the Wine Industry of Byzantine Palestine (4th-early 7th Centuries) Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Cities: Seamen, Merchants and Clergymen and the Maritime City of Gaza Maiumas Chapter 8: The Founding of a New Capital City in Palestine in Early Islam: Al-Ramla, the Administrative and Commercial Centre of the Arab Province of Palestine (7th-11thCentury) Chapter 9: Regulating Trade and Inspecting Urban Markets in Byzantine and Islamic Palestine: The Agoranomos and Muhtasibs in Historical and Comparatives Perspective Chapter 10: The Rise and Decline of a Trademark of Palestinian Identity: The Glassware and Ceramic Industries of Al-Khalil (Thirteen-Twenty-First Centuries) Chapter 11: Cities of Stone: Quarries and the Stone and Marble Industries of Palestine Chapter 12: Cross-Weaving and Gauze from Palestine to Europe: The Silk and Linen Industries of Asqalan and Gaza under the Mamluks Chapter 13: Caravansarais, Markets and Urban Life: The Urban and Rural Merchants'' Khans of Mamluk and Ottoman Palestine Chapter 14: Palestine''s Cottonopolis and Dhaher al-''Umar: The Cotton Industry, Urbanisation in Galilee and the Rise of Modern Acre Chapter 15: The Soap Factories of Jerusalem and Nablus: Olive Oil and the Soap Industry of Palestine from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period Chapter 16: Tobacco, Urban Coffeehouses and the Leisure Industry of Palestine Chapter 17: Sweets as a Modern Trademark: Urban Life, Sweet Bakeries and the Confectionary Culture of Palestine Chapter 18: City of Oranges: Jaffa Orange, Palestine''s Citrus Industry and the Transformation of Jaffa into a Modern Metropolis (1845-1948) Bibliography ry of Byzantine Palestine (4th-early 7th Centuries) Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Cities: Seamen, Merchants and Clergymen and the Maritime City of Gaza Maiumas Chapter 8: The Founding of a New Capital City in Palestine in Early Islam: Al-Ramla, the Administrative and Commercial Centre of the Arab Province of Palestine (7th-11thCentury) Chapter 9: Regulating Trade and Inspecting Urban Markets in Byzantine and Islamic Palestine: The Agoranomos and Muhtasibs in Historical and Comparatives Perspective Chapter 10: The Rise and Decline of a Trademark of Palestinian Identity: The Glassware and Ceramic Industries of Al-Khalil (Thirteen-Twenty-First Centuries) Chapter 11: Cities of Stone: Quarries and the Stone and Marble Industries of Palestine Chapter 12: Cross-Weaving and Gauze from Palestine to Europe: The Silk and Linen Industries of Asqalan and Gaza under the Mamluks Chapter 13: Caravansarais, Markets and Urban Life: The Urban and Rural Merchants'' Khans of Mamluk and Ottoman Palestine Chapter 14: Palestine''s Cottonopolis and Dhaher al-''Umar: The Cotton Industry, Urbanisation in Galilee and the Rise of Modern Acre Chapter 15: The Soap Factories of Jerusalem and Nablus: Olive Oil and the Soap Industry of Palestine from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period Chapter 16: Tobacco, Urban Coffeehouses and the Leisure Industry of Palestine Chapter 17: Sweets as a Modern Trademark: Urban Life, Sweet Bakeries and the Confectionary Culture of Palestine Chapter 18: City of Oranges: Jaffa Orange, Palestine''s Citrus Industry and the Transformation of Jaffa into a Modern Metropolis (1845-1948) Bibliographyttoman Palestine Chapter 14: Palestine''s Cottonopolis and Dhaher al-''Umar: The Cotton Industry, Urbanisation in Galilee and the Rise of Modern Acre Chapter 15: The Soap Factories of Jerusalem and Nablus: Olive Oil and the Soap Industry of Palestine from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period Chapter 16: Tobacco, Urban Coffeehouses and the Leisure Industry of Palestine Chapter 17: Sweets as a Modern Trademark: Urban Life, Sweet Bakeries and the Confectionary Culture of Palestine Chapter 18: City of Oranges: Jaffa Orange, Palestine''s Citrus Industry and the Transformation of Jaffa into a Modern Metropolis (1845-1948) Bibliographyry of Byzantine Palestine (4th-early 7th Centuries) Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Cities: Seamen, Merchants and Clergymen and the Maritime City of Gaza Maiumas Chapter 8: The Founding of a New Capital City in Palestine in Early Islam: Al-Ramla, the Administrative and Commercial Centre of the Arab Province of Palestine (7th-11thCentury) Chapter 9: Regulating Trade and Inspecting Urban Markets in Byzantine and Islamic Palestine: The Agoranomos and Muhtasibs in Historical and Comparatives Perspective Chapter 10: The Rise and Decline of a Trademark of Palestinian Identity: The Glassware and Ceramic Industries of Al-Khalil (Thirteen-Twenty-First Centuries) Chapter 11: Cities of Stone: Quarries and the Stone and Marble Industries of Palestine Chapter 12: Cross-Weaving and Gauze from Palestine to Europe: The Silk and Linen Industries of Asqalan and Gaza under the Mamluks Chapter 13: Caravansarais, Markets and Urban Life: The Urban and Rural Merchants'' Khans of Mamluk and Ottoman Palestine Chapter 14: Palestine''s Cottonopolis and Dhaher al-''Umar: The Cotton Industry, Urbanisation in Galilee and the Rise of Modern Acre Chapter 15: The Soap Factories of Jerusalem and Nablus: Olive Oil and the Soap Industry of Palestine from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period Chapter 16: Tobacco, Urban Coffeehouses and the Leisure Industry of Palestine Chapter 17: Sweets as a Modern Trademark: Urban Life, Sweet Bakeries and the Confectionary Culture of Palestine Chapter 18: City of Oranges: Jaffa Orange, Palestine''s Citrus Industry and the Transformation of Jaffa into a Modern Metropolis (1845-1948) Bibliographyry of Byzantine Palestine (4th-early 7th Centuries) Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Cities: Seamen, Merchants and Clergymen and the Maritime City of Gaza Maiumas Chapter 8: The Founding of a New Capital City in Palestine in Early Islam: Al-Ramla, the Administrative and Commercial Centre of the Arab Province of Palestine (7th-11thCentury) Chapter 9: Regulating Trade and Inspecting Urban Markets in Byzantine and Islamic Palestine: The Agoranomos and Muhtasibs in Historical and Comparatives Perspective Chapter 10: The Rise and Decline of a Trademark of Palestinian Identity: The Glassware and Ceramic Industries of Al-Khalil (Thirteen-Twenty-First Centuries) Chapter 11: Cities of Stone: Quarries and the Stone and Marble Industries of Palestine Chapter 12: Cross-Weaving and Gauze from Palestine to Europe: The Silk and Linen Industries of Asqalan and Gaza under the Mamluks Chapter 13: Caravansarais, Markets and Urban Life: The Urban and Rural Merchants'' Khans of Mamluk and Ottoman Palestine Chapter 14: Palestine''s Cottonopolis and Dhaher al-''Umar: The Cotton Industry, Urbanisation in Galilee and the Rise of Modern Acre Chapter 15: The Soap Factories of Jerusalem and Nablus: Olive Oil and the Soap Industry of Palestine from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period Chapter 16: Tobacco, Urban Coffeehouses and the Leisure Industry of Palestine Chapter 17: Sweets as a Modern Trademark: Urban Life, Sweet Bakeries and the Confectionary Culture of Palestine Chapter 18: City of Oranges: Jaffa Orange, Palestine''s Citrus Industry and the Transformation of Jaffa into a Modern Metropolis (1845-1948) Bibliographyttoman Palestine Chapter 14: Palestine''s Cottonopolis and Dhaher al-''Umar: The Cotton Industry, Urbanisation in Galilee and the Rise of Modern Acre Chapter 15: The Soap Factories of Jerusalem and Nablus: Olive Oil and the Soap Industry of Palestine from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period Chapter 16: Tobacco, Urban Coffeehouses and the Leisure Industry of Palestine Chapter 17: Sweets as a Modern Trademark: Urban Life, Sweet Bakeries and the Confectionary Culture of Palestine Chapter 18: City of Oranges: Jaffa Orange, Palestine''s Citrus Industry and the Transformation of Jaffa into a Modern Metropolis (1845-1948) Bibliographyttoman Palestine Chapter 14: Palestine''s Cottonopolis and Dhaher al-''Umar: The Cotton Industry, Urbanisation in Galilee and the Rise of Modern Acre Chapter 15: The Soap Factories of Jerusalem and Nablus: Olive Oil and the Soap Industry of Palestine from the Middle Ages to the 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