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SUMMARY:An HI Faculty Invites Event: “States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition
and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean” with Elizabeth
R. Williams
DESCRIPTION:\nElizabeth R. Williams\, Assistant Professor at University
of Massachusetts\, Lowell\n\nThe final decades of the Ottoman Empire and
the period of the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a
critical period of transformation in agricultural technologies and admin
istration. Chemical fertilizers and mechanized equipment inspired model
farms while government officials and technocratic elites pursued new lan
d tenure\, credit-lending\, and tax collection policies to maximize reve
nue. These policies transformed rural communities and environments and w
ere central to projects of reform and colonial control&mdash\;as well as
to resistance of that control. This talk examines the processes and eff
ects of agrarian transformation over more than a century as Ottoman\, Sy
rian\, Lebanese\, and French officials grappled with these new technolog
ies\, albeit with different end goals.\n\nFor more details: https://even
ts.la.psu.edu/event/hi_elizabeth_williams/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Elizabeth R.
Williams, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Lowell
The final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the Fr
ench mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a critical period of tr
ansformation in agricultural technologies and administration. Chemical f
ertilizers and mechanized equipment inspired model farms while governmen
t officials and technocratic elites pursued new land tenure, credit-lend
ing, and tax collection policies to maximize revenue. These policies tra
nsformed rural communities and environments and were central to projects
of reform and colonial control—as well as to resistance of that c
ontrol. This talk examines the processes and effects of agrarian transfo
rmation over more than a century as Ottoman, Syrian, Lebanese, and Frenc
h officials grappled with these new technologies, albeit with different
end goals.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_elizabeth
_williams/
LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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