Description: States of Cultivation : Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean, Hardcover by Williams, Elizabeth R., ISBN 150363468X, ISBN-13 9781503634688, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "The final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a critical period of transformation in agricultural technologies and administration. Chemical fertilizers and mechanized equipment inspired model farms while government officials and technocratic elites pursued new land tenure, credit-lending, and tax collection policies to maximize revenue. These policies transformed rural communities and environments and were central to projects of reform and colonial control--as well as to resistance of that control. States of Cultivation examines the processes and effects of agrarian transformation over more than a century as Ottoman, Syrian, Lebanese, and French officials grappled with these new technologies, albeit with different end goals. Elizabeth Williams investigates the increasingly fragmented natures produced by these contrasting priorities and the results of their intersection with regional environmental limits. Not only did post-World War I policies realign the economic space of the mandate states, but they shaped an agricultural legacy that continued to impact Syria and Lebanon post-independence. With this book, Williams offers the first comprehensive account of the shared technocratic ideals that animated these policies and the divergent imperial goals that not only reshaped the region's agrarian institutions, but produced representations of the region with repercussions well beyond the mandate's end"--
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Book Title: States of Cultivation : Imperial Transition and Scientific Agricu
Number of Pages: 446 Pages
Publication Name: States of Cultivation : Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Modern / 20th Century
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Elizabeth R. Williams
Subject Area: History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge Ser.
Format: Hardcover
