States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean 9781503635937

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States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Elizabeth R. Williams

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Note on Transliteration
Maps
Introduction
1 Provincial Legibility and Ecologies of Extraction
2 “Agriculture from a Book”
3 The Trials and Tribulations of Tractors
4 The Politics of Agricultural Expertise and Education
5 Of Mice, Sunn Bugs, Drought, and Taxation
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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