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Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 (review)

Indeed, the book chronicles the rise and struggles of the Arab Orthodox movement, which sought to wrest control of the Greek Orthodox patriarchate from Greek nationals and deliver it into Arab hands, as well as Christian efforts to secure greater representation on municipal councils. Both Englishand Arabic-language sources contribute to the development of a nuanced portrait of the rise of sectarian politics under the Palestine Mandate. As one would expect, the papers of the Mandate authorities play a vital role in constructing this portrait, but Robson extends her purview well beyond the British National Archives to include such newspapers as Filastin and Al-Karmil, as well as the writings of such Palestinian Christians as Khalil al-Sakakini and ‘Izzat Tannus. Robson’s approach to sources, though meticulous, is excessively cautious: Her announced concern is as much with cultural as it is with political developments, but the text is overwhelmingly concerned with detailed political narrative. What might Robson have made of her sources had she adopted an anthropological sensibility in examining them and extended her focus beyond the machinations of the Arab Christian elite? Yet, of greater concern is the puzzling absence among her references of two pivotal dissertations, intimately linked to her topic—Campos’ “A ‘Shared Homeland’ and Its Boundaries” and Roberts’ “Rethinking the Status Quo.”1