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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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