The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858.

Abstract

List of tables List of abbreviations Note on the use of dates, vocabulary, transliteration, and spelling Preface Introduction Part I. Rural Egypt Before the Reforms of Muhammad Ali: 1. The agrarian administration 2. The Iltizam system and the Multazims 3. Commercial relations in the countryside 4. Peasant land tenure 5. The rural notables Part II. Rural Egypt During and After the Reforms of Muhammad Ali: 6. Centralisation, expansion, and the limits to expansion 7. Taxation, the monopoly system, and the peasantry 8. The redistribution of land 9. The rural notables 10. The emergence of a new rural order, 1842-58 Conclusion and epilogue Appendices Bibliography.