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States of Cultivation
Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
Elizabeth R. Williams

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Contents
0 Introduction
1 Provincial Legibility and Ecologies of Extraction: Agrarian Networks and the Making of Late Ottoman Rural State Space
2 "Agriculture from a Book": "Scientific" Agriculture in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean
3 The Trials and Tribulations of Tractors: From Ottoman Provinces to French Mandate States
4 The Politics of Agricultural Expertise and Education: Exerting Rural Influence Under the French Mandate
5 Of Mice, Sunn Bugs, Drought, and Taxation: The Pests of Mandate Rural Administration and the Crisis of the 1930s
Epilogue