#  States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean 

 



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 **March 27, 2024** 

 05:00PM - 06:30PM EDT 

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 **CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 *States of Cultivation* examines the processes and effects of agrarian transformation over more than a century as Ottoman, Syrian, Lebanese, and French officials grappled with these new technologies, albeit with different end goals. Elizabeth Williams investigates the increasingly fragmented natures produced by these contrasting priorities and the results of their intersection with regional environmental limits. Not only did post–World War I policies realign the economic space of the mandate states, but they shaped an agricultural legacy that continued to impact Syria and Lebanon post-independence. With this book, Williams offers the first comprehensive account of the shared technocratic ideals that animated these policies and the divergent imperial goals that not only reshaped the region's agrarian institutions, but produced representations of the region with repercussions well beyond the mandate's end.

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