Peasants and politics in the modern Middle East

Cover title: Peasants and politics in the modern Middle East.

Peasants defy categorization / John Waterbury -- Changing patterns of peasant protest in the Middle East, 1750-1950 / Edmund Burke, III -- Rural unrest in the Ottoman Empire, 1830-1914 / Donald Quataert -- Violence in rural Syria inthe 1880s and 1890s / Linda Schatkowski Schilcher -- The impact of peasant resistance of nineteenth-century Mount Lebanon / Axel Havemann -- Peasant uprisings in twentieth-century Iran, Iraq, and Turkey / Farhad Kazemi -- War, state economic policies, and resistance by agricultural producers in Turkey, 1939-1945 / Sevket Pamuk -- Rural change and peasant destitution / Kenneth W. Stein -- Colonization and resistance / Reinhard C. Schulze -- The ignorance and inscrutability ofthe Egyptian peasantry / Nathan Brown -- The representation of rural violence in writings on political development in Nasserist Egypt / Timothy Mitchell -- Clan and class in two Arab villages / Nicholas S. Hopkins -- State and agrarian relations before and after the Iranian Revolution, 1960-1990 -- Peasant pro