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Development and social change in rural Egypt

Title
Development and social change in rural Egypt / Richard H. Adams, Jr.
Author
Adams, Richard H.
Publication
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1986.

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Description
xii, 231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Uniform Title
Contemporary issues in the Middle East
Subject
  • Rural development > Egypt
  • Local government > Egypt
  • Peasants > Egypt
  • Egypt
  • rural development
  • small farms
  • 71.15 rural society
  • 83.66 agricultural economics
  • Local government
  • Peasants
  • Rural development
  • Landbevölkerung
  • Ländliche Entwicklung
  • Regionalverwaltung
  • Sozialer Wandel
  • Platteland
  • Agrarische ontwikkeling
  • Sociale verandering
  • Développement rural > Égypte
  • Administration locale > Égypte
  • Paysannerie > Égypte
  • Egypt
  • Ägypten
  • Egypt > Rural conditions
Note
  • Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 213-224.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. The macro-setting and the argument -- 2. Control and management in the Egyptian countryside -- 3. Agricultural cooperatives and the taxation of the rural periphery -- 4. State control versus rich peasant autonomy and circumvention -- 5. Land reform: distribution, development, and the peasant farm -- 6. Rural poverty and rich patrons -- 7. Big men, small boys, and the dynamics of rural politics -- 8. Individual, community, and the process of rural development -- 9. conclusion
ISBN
  • 0815623623
  • 9780815623625
LCCN
85030251
OCLC
  • ocm12971667
  • 12971667
  • SCSB-8979205
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library