Table of Contents

Rural Settlements--Process-Pattern Relationships
Reconstructing Rural Processes--The British Evidence
The Settlement Process and Pattern of Cheshire
The Expansion of Agricultural Settlement Frontier
In Palestine (Eretz Israel)--Processes and Patterns
The Factors Accounting for the Prevalence of Nucleation
Sedentarization and Nomadization--Factors and Characteristics
The Nomadization Process in Southern Palestine
Seasonal Settlements--Factors and Processes of Fixation
Jewish Settlement Processes and Patterns in the Palestine (Eretz Israel)
The Map of the Settlement Patterns of Palestine (Eretz Israel)
General Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

This volume examines the relationships between rural settlement processes and the spatial patterns they produce by mapping past and present patterns and tracing historical processes generating them. Using the historical records of Palestine (Eretz Israel), Grossman reviews the settlement processes of bedouins, Arab peasants, and early Jewish settlers.

About the Author

DAVID GROSSMAN is Associate Professor of Geography at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His research studies of rural development and migration in Africa and the West Bank have fostered interest in historical geography and anthropology. Dr. Grossman has authored and edited many books and articles in English and in Hebrew.

Reviews

?. . . a thoughtful book more suited to graduate seminar than introductory classroom.?-Historical Geography

?This well-documented work is worthwhile reading for both rural and regional specialists. Grossman is to be commended for his integration of textual and field research. His 26 maps add significantly to the text, although several of the maps should have included more recognizable points of orientation. Rural Process-Pattern Relationships succeeds in identifying the formation process from dispersed settlements to nucleated villages in diverse settings and times, while at the same time acknowledging the many other complex influences at play.?-Professional Geographer

." . . a thoughtful book more suited to graduate seminar than introductory classroom."-Historical Geography

"This well-documented work is worthwhile reading for both rural and regional specialists. Grossman is to be commended for his integration of textual and field research. His 26 maps add significantly to the text, although several of the maps should have included more recognizable points of orientation. Rural Process-Pattern Relationships succeeds in identifying the formation process from dispersed settlements to nucleated villages in diverse settings and times, while at the same time acknowledging the many other complex influences at play."-Professional Geographer