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States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
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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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Release dateAug 22, 2023
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States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Elizabeth R. Williams

Elizabeth Williams is an ambassador of Christ, who desires to see God’s people set free and fulfill His will, plan, and purpose for their lives. She holds a Master of Divinity degree and is the founder of Elizabeth Williams Ministries. Elizabeth is also the author of Woman of Grace, a book that speaks of God’s redemptive power through His grace and mercy.

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