Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The Formation and Emergence of the Peasant Question 15
7. 2. People, Peasants, and Intellectuals 62
8. 3. Five Peasant Characters in Search of Bourgeois Identity or ’Afandis in Gallabiyas 108
9. 4. Scientific Agriculture: Cultivators, Agriculturalists, or Peasants? 148
10. 5. The New Peasant, Colonial Identity, and the Modern State 180
11. Conclusion 217
12. Notes 229
13. Bibliography 263
14. Index 283