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[email protected] WEB ADDRESS: http://go.owu.edu/~brhistor EDITOR Richard Spall Ohio Wesleyan University REGIONAL SUB-EDITORS William H. Alexander Richard B. Allen (Modern Western Europe) (Africa, Middle East, and South Asia) Norfolk State University Framingham State College Douglas R. Bisson Betty Dessants (Early Modern Europe) (United States Since 1865) Belmont University Shippensburg University Helen S. Hundley Nigel Kennell & Stefanie Kennell (Russia and Eastern Europe) (Ancient World) Wichita State University Memorial University of Newfoundland Jose C. Moya Paulette L. Pepin (Latin America) (Medieval Europe) University of California at University of New Haven Los Angeles Susan Mitchell Sommers Richard Spall (Britain and the Empire) (Historiography) Saint Vincent College Ohio Wesleyan University Susan Westbury Peter Worthing (United States) (East Asia and the Pacific) Illinois State University Texas Christian University STUDENT EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS SENIOR ASSISTANTS Susan Flanagan Paul Krog Amanda Stacy Jennifer Kirsop Doug Sampson Ryan Jarvis Matthew McGuire Jillian Snyder Scarlett Rebman Kaleigh Felisberto Patrick O’Connor Ryan Colopy Colin Magruder Sean Kennedy Mark Lovering Kara Reiter Ben Malecki Zack Gomes Alex Branstool WORD PROCESSING:LAURIE GEORGE &VALERIE HAMILL 754 THE H ISTORIAN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST The Palestinian Peasant Economy Under the Mandate: A Story of Colonial Bungling. By Amos Nadan. (Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University, 2006. Pp. xx, 370. $19.95.) The author of this study has taken on a project that, as with all aspects of Palestinian history, could easily be read for its political implications.