States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean

The final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the French mandate in Syria and...
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Author: Elizabeth R. Williams
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States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean by Williams, Elizabeth R.

States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean

€168,86

States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean

€168,86
Author: Elizabeth R. Williams
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Elizabeth R. Williams
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 446
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.22w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9781503634688

About the Author
Elizabeth R. Williams is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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