“The penetration of British influence into Palestine (1840-1914) and its social effects”

Abstract

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, European countries’ competition to expand their influence in Palestine intensified, and this competition doubled with the emergence of what was known as the Eastern Question, in which European countries sought to divide the properties of the Ottoman Empire due to its political and military weakness. Britain had ambitions in the region, most notably the settlement of Jews in Palestine. Until its settlement project began by penetrating into Palestine and extending its influence through settlement projects, their implementation, and their impact on social structures, in the late Ottoman rule, when Britain sought to dismantle the structure of Palestinian society, which was subject to the authority of the Ottoman state, and which was administratively divided into three sanjaks*: Jerusalem , Nablus, Akka, through its incursion into it to be consistent with its interests and ambitions in imposing a new capitalist and social model through which the original structure of society could be dismantled, in preparation for extending its influence and political, economic and administrative dominance