Nomads and settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800-1980
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Nomads and settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800-1980
(Cambridge Middle East library)
Cambridge University Press, 1987
Available at 16 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 238-244
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is about the land and people of parts of the interior of Syria and Jordan. At the beginning of the nineteenth century most of the people were nomads and only a small proportion of the land was cultivated. Today nomads are few, peasants are numerous and nearly all the land that will bear a crop is under cultivation. This study shows how the present situation came about as the state extended and strengthened its hold on the countryside, the economy of the country developed, landlords and peasants took up hitherto uncultivated land and nomads settled down to become farmers. The concluding chapters discuss the effects of population growth, mechanised farming and overgrazing on the semi-arid environment and its inhabitants. Norman Lewis combines geographical, historical and ethnographical material derived from an immense variety of sources, including unpublished manuscripts and fieldwork undertaken over a period of forty years.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: the Badiyah and the transitional zone
- 1. Nomads, villagers and the desert line about 1800
- 2. The Euphrates valley, the Fid'an and the Turks 1840-1900
- 3. Settlement in the province of Aleppo 1831-1914
- 4. Settlement in central Syria 1848-1920
- 5. Jabal ad Duruz
- 6. Circassians and Chechens
- 7. The Bani Sakhr
- 8. The Muhayd shaykhs and the Fid'an in the twentieth century
- 10. The badiyah today
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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