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Online-Ressource (433 p)
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9780691002545
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In this book, the distinguished scholar 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'état of 1963, and the era of îvfiz 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
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Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; PART I: THE PEASANTS' SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; CHAPTER 1 The Role of Demographics; CHAPTER 2 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; CHAPTER 3 Living Conditions; The Distribution of Agricultural Income prior to and since the Restructuring of Agrarian Relations
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The Lessening Cost of Agricultural CreditThe 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; CHAPTER 4 Economic Efficiency; Land Use; The Agricultural Growth Trends and Related Causal Factors; Possible Lines of Future Progress; PART II: THE PRE-BA'TH PATTERNS OF PEASANT CONSCIOUSNESS, ORGANIZATION, AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
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CHAPTER 5 Introduction: Portraits of Peasants by Ibn Khaldūn, Balzac, Trotsky, Father Ayrout, and J. C. Scott, and Their RelevanceCHAPTER 6 The First Peasant Organizations or the Corporations of Peasant-gardeners from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century; CHAPTER 7 Sūfism among the Peasants: A Source of Political Quietism?; CHAPTER 8 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; CHAPTER 9 The Communists and the Peasants
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CHAPTER 10 The Arab Socialists, or the First Agrarian Party in Syria's HistoryPART III: THE RURAL AND PEASANT ASPECTS OF BA'THISM; CHAPTER 11 The Old Ba'th and the Political Rearing of a Rural Intelligentsia; CHAPTER 12 The "Transitional" Ba'th or the Ba'th of the 1960s, the Rise of the Lesser Rural or Village Notability, and the Ruralization of the Army, the Party, and, to Some Degree, the State Bureaucracy; The Social Origins of the Members of the Military Committee; The Causal Factors behind the Ascent of the Lesser Rural or Village Notability
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The Stepped-up Ruralization of the Armed ForcesReasons for the Paramount Influence of the 'Alawī Officers; The Rural Penetration of the State Bureaucracy; The Enhanced Rural Coloring of the Ba'th Party; The Agrarian Policies of the 1960s and Their Social Meaning; The Downfall of the Mainstream Ba'thists of the 1960s and Its Causes; CHAPTER 13 The Post-1970 Asad-molded, Career-oriented Ba'th; Qāa'id-ul-Masīrah; The General Characteristics and Social Composition of the New Ba'th; The Reasons Why the Proportion of Peasants in the Party Declined in the 1980s and Rose Subsequently
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PART IV: HĀFIZ AL-ASAD, OR SYRIA'S FIRST RULER OF PEASANT EXTRACTION
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ISBN 9781400845842
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ISBN 9780691002545
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics
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Englisch
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