Landholding and Commercial Agriculture in the Middle East

Landholding and Commercial Agriculture in the Middle EastThis book traces the evolution of Ottoman agriculture from commercialization of the rural peasant households into global networks of production and trade. It re evaluates the significance attached to large scale agricultural units as catalysts of this transformation, and assesses structures of authority and control invested in large landlords, local notables, and the rural producers. The essays in this volume offer different perspectives on the

Until the rediscovery of these manuscripts

Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows in the lives of ordinary religious practitioners in South Asia

As well as illuminating current reading strategies

to "weepies" and soap operas

Twenty-two-year-old Wendy Doniger arrived in Calcutta in August 1963 on a scholarship to study Sanskrit and Bengali

two chapters treat serious problems that plague current argumentation theory

Presenting data on the deteriorating health of children during the nineteenth century and on their increasing displacement of adults in the workplace

The Tree Climber

She addresses how girls have become cultural flashpoints reflecting societal-and particularly feminist-anxieties and hopes about the present and the future

herbicide-resistant weeds

and is it a model worthwhile in applying to other countries

Plato's Republic covers a very wide range of philosophical topics