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Author Batatu, Hanna, 1926- author.

Title Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics / Hanna Batatu
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 413 pages)
Contents The Peasants' Socioeconomic Conditions -- The Role of Demographics -- Differentiations -- The "Peasant-gardeners" and the "Agricultural Peasants" -- The Pacific Peasants and the Peasants of Warrior Origin -- The "Orthodox" and the "Heterodox" Peasants -- The Clanless and Clan-linked Peasants -- The Landed and Landless Peasants, the Traditional Urban Landowners, and the Modern Mustathmirs -- Living Conditions -- The Distribution of Agricultural Income prior to and since the Restructuring of Agrarian Relations -- The Lessening Cost of Agricultural Credit -- The Reduced Tax Burden -- The Rapid Electrification of the Countryside -- The Spread of Safe Water Networks -- The Expansion of Rural Health Care -- The Development of the Means of Communication and Conveyance -- The Intensification of the State's Educational Efforts -- Economic Efficiency -- Land Use -- The Agricultural Growth Trends and Related Causal Factors -- Possible Lines of Future Progress -- The Pre-Ba'th Patterns of Peasant Consciousness, Organization, and Political Behavior -- Introduction: Portraits of Peasants / Ibn Khaldun, Balzac, Trotsky, Father Ayrout, J.C. Scott -- The First Peasant Organizations or the Corporations of Peasant-gardeners from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century -- Sufism among the Peasants: A Source of Political Quietism? -- The Proneness in Ottoman and Mandate Times of the Peasant Mountaineers to Rebellion and of the Peasants of the Open Plains to Indirect Methods of Defense -- The Communists and the Peasants
Summary In this book, Hanna Batatu presents a comprehensive analysis of the recent social, economic, and political evolution of Syria's peasantry, the segment of society from which the current holders of political power stem. Batatu focuses mainly on the twentieth century and, in particular, on the Ba'th movement, the structures of power after the military coup d'etat of 1963, and the era of Hafiz al-Asad, Syria's first ruler of peasant extraction. Without seeking to prove any single theory about Syrian life, he offers a uniquely rich and detailed account of how power was transferred from one demographic group to another and how that power is maintained today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-403) and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Assad, Hafez, 1930-2000.
SUBJECT Assad, Hafez, 1930-2000
Assad, Hafez, 1930-2000 fast
Asad, Ḥāfiz al, (1930-2000) ram
Subject Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Syria)
SUBJECT Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Syria) fast
Parti baas (Syrie) ram
Subject Peasants -- Political activity -- Syria -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Peasants -- Political activity
Politics and government
Peasantry -- Syria -- History.
Politik
Soziale Situation
Bauer
Boeren.
Politieke macht.
Parti Baas -- Syrie.
Paysannerie -- Syrie.
SUBJECT Syria -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Subject Syria
Syria -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Syria -- Minorities.
Syrien
Syrie -- Politique et gouvernement.
Syrie -- Politique économique.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400845842
140084584X
1283590921
9781283590921
9786613903372
661390337X