An international group of specialists provides insights into the problems affecting agricultural development in the Middle East region. Looks at the resources and land structure in the Arab states, Iran, and Turkey. Using a systematic approach, it examines the origins, development and character...

Development's agrarian culture -- A plantation political context: of peasants, state and capital, 1838-1938 -- Forging nationals out of rural working peoples -- In the name of the 'small man': 'heavy manners' and the creation of new subjectivities -- Maneuvers of an embattled state: neoliberal...