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State, peasants, and land in mid-nineteenth-century Egypt /
"This book examines the rural history of Egypt during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a period that is often glossed over, or altogether forgotten. Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, some only rarely utilized by other scholars, it argues that state policy targeting the pea...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cairo ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2023.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- The land laws
- Peasants and taxes
- System of tax collection
- Land tenure in peasant villages
- Peasant women and inheritance of land
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: The distribution of land in the sample villages: distribution of land in alternative categories
- Appendix B: The impact of the major tax codes on the four sample villages
- Appendix C: Egyptian archival sources
- Notes
- Select bibliography-- Index.