Introduction. Reconstructing the Past to Shape the Present -- Chapter 1. Time and Space - Spatial and Periodical Delimitations -- A. Central Coastal Plain of Palestine in the British Mandate Period -- B. Private Entrepreneurs in Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s -- C. The Book's Objectives -- Chapter 2. The Private Entrepreneur and Economic Development of Palestine in the British Mandate Period -- A. Private Entrepreneur: Definitions and Characteristics -- B. Palestine and Private Enterprise in the 1920s and 1930s -- C. Development in Palestine from the Standpoint of the Private Investor -- Chapter 3. Citrus Plantation Farms on the Central Coastal Plain -- A. Immigration to Palestine - Its Effect on Decisions to Establish Small Citrus Grove Estates -- B. The Qalmaniya Estate -- C. Canadian Jews and Plantations Farms on the Central Coastal Plain -- The Norman Schiffer Farm -- Max Adelman and Gan Hasharon Citrus Plantations -- Chapter 4. Plantation Companies in the Southern Coastal Plain - Private Initiatives for Cooperative Settlement -- A. Introduction -- B. Gan Raveh: Citrus Groves of South African Jews -- C. Meir Rosoff's Citrus Gardens -- The Management Committee according to Rosoff -- Chomsky: Cooperation between Capital and Labor -- Gan Rashal -- Ganney Hadar -- Chapter 5. From Alexandria to Palestine - Baron de Menasche and the Bnei Binyamin Association -- Felix de Menasche - Introduction -- De Menasche Family -- Baron de Menasche: Connections with Weizmann and Political Activity -- Felix de Menasche: Settlement Activity in Palestine in the 1920s -- Felix de Menasche and his Investments in Palestine in the 1930s -- Chapter 6. Tycoons in Palestine -- A. Discovering the Economic Potential of Palestine -- B. Chaim Weizmann and His Approach to Large Private Capital -- Asher Pierce -- Max Shoolman -- Alfred Mond.

C. The Development: Gan Haim Plantations Company -- Expansion: Efforts to Create a Monopoly in the Citrus Grove Belt in the Coastal Plain -- D. The Split: Establishment of the Palestine Plantation Company -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Space, Time and Human Being -- Space and Time - The Citrus Plantation, a Unique Phenomenon in Palestine during the British Mandate Period -- Human Being - Biography Designs Landscape -- Bibliography -- Index.