The Pasha's peasants : land, society, and economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858
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The Pasha's peasants : land, society, and economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858
（Cambridge Middle East library, 27）
Cambridge University Press, 1992
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization遡
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Bibliography: p. 256-264
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a pathbreaking study of the rural origins of modern Egypt, dealing with the period of the rise of the modern state and the country's incorporation into the world economy. Professor Cuno uses previously underexploited sources - court records, fatwas, and land tax registers - to shed new light on changes in the system of peasant land tenure, urban-rural commerce, the rural social structure, and the interplay of formal law with peasant customs and attitudes. The author refutes the conventional view of modern Egyptian history, and indeed many other studies of 'modernization' in the non-Western world. The traditional thesis argues that intensified contact with Europe brought on the 'awakening' of the modern nation. Cuno, on the other hand, convincingly demonstrates that the rise of cash-crop agriculture, the commoditisation of land, the concept of private property, and the appearance of a stratified rural society were actually centuries-old features of the Egyptian countryside.
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Note on the use of dates, vocabulary, transliteration, and spelling
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Rural Egypt Before the Reforms of Muhammad Ali: 1. The agrarian administration
- 2. The Iltizam system and the Multazims
- 3. Commercial relations in the countryside
- 4. Peasant land tenure
- 5. The rural notables
- Part II. Rural Egypt During and After the Reforms of Muhammad Ali: 6. Centralisation, expansion, and the limits to expansion
- 7. Taxation, the monopoly system, and the peasantry
- 8. The redistribution of land
- 9. The rural notables
- 10. The emergence of a new rural order, 1842-58
- Conclusion and epilogue
- Appendices
- Bibliography.
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