Preface Ch. 1 Introduction 1 Ch. 2 Contrasting Narratives of Palestinian Identity 9 Ch. 3 Cultural Life and Identity in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Place of Jerusalem 35 Ch. 4 Competing and Overlapping Loyalties in Ottoman Jerusalem 63 Ch. 5 Elements of Identity I: Peasant Resistance to Zionist Settlement 89 Ch. 6 Elements of Identity II: The Debate on Zionism in the Arabic Press 119 Ch. 7 The Formation of Palestinian Identity: The Critical Years, 1917-1923 145 Ch. 8 The "Disappearance" and Reemergence of Palestinian Identity 177 Notes 211 Bibliography 267 Index 287.