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- Title
L'ENQUÊTE DE CADASTRE BRITANNIQUE DES TERRES AGRICOLES ÉGYPTIENNES (1897-1907).
- Authors
Bunton, Martin
- Abstract
Between the years 1892 and 1907, the British administration in Egypt undertook a survey of the country's agricultural tax revenues. Not only was every village boundary from one end of Egypt to the other reconsidered and mapped, but so too were village subdivisions (known as 'hods', ranging from 50 to 100 dunams of similar quality land) also fixed and recorded for tax purposes. The aim is to capture some of the surveying project's complexity by exploring the issues of actors and agency, human and non human, as British officials themselves understood them. Egyptian cultivators and the riparian lands they inhabited were more than mere background, and always carried the potential for resistance or collaboration. Thus they became real actors in shaping the course of the survey in ways that would be useful to explore.
- Subjects
EGYPT; SURVEYS; AGRICULTURE; LAND use; BRITISH people; INTERNAL revenue; CULTIVATORS; VILLAGES; AGRICULTURAL implements
- Publication
Maghreb - Machrek, 2010, Issue 205, p65
- ISSN
1762-3162
- Publication type
Article