Overview
"These essays are of uniformly high quality, scholarly in tone, while addressing concerns of utmost importance for an understanding of Middle East politics. [The editors] provide an excellent overview . . . and there-after the reader is treated to historical and comparative studies that are very informative. A first-rate collection."--Foreign AffairsContents1. Peasants Defy Categorization (As Well as Landlords and the State), by John Waterbury2. Changing Patterns of Peasant Protest in the Middle East, 1750-1950, by Edmund Burke III3. Rural Unrest in the Ottoman Empire, 1830-1914, by Donald Quataert4. Violence in Rural Syria in the 1880s and 1890s: State Centralization, Rural Integration, and the World Market, by Linda Schatkowski Schilcher5. The Impact of Peasant Resistance on Nineteenth-Century Mount Lebanon, by Axel Havemann6. Peasant Uprisings in Twentieth-Century Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, by Farhad Kazemi7. War, State Economic Policies, and Resistance by Agricultural Producers in Turkey, 1939-1945, by Sevket Pamuk8. Rural Change and Peasant Destitution: Contributing Causes to the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939, by Kenneth W. Stein9. Colonization and Resistance: The Egyptian Peasant Rebellion, 1919, by Reinhard C. Schulze10. The Ignorance and Inscrutability of the Egyptian Peasantry, by Nathan Brown11. The Representation of Rural Violence in Writings on Political Development in Nasserist Egypt, by Timothy Mitchell12. Clan and Class in Two Arab Villages, by Nicholas S. Hopkins13. State and Agrarian Relations Before and After the Iranian Revolution, 1960-1990, by Ahmad Ashraf14. Peasant Protest and Resistance in Rural Iranian Azerbaijan, by Fereydoun SafizadehJohn Waterbury is professor of politics and international relations at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton. Farhad Kazemi is professor of politics at New York University.
- | Author: Farhad Kazemi
- | Publisher: University Press of Florida
- | Publication Date: Oct 20, 1991
- | Number of Pages: 347 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813011027
- | ISBN-13: 9780813011028
