Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Ottoman and Local Conceptualizations of Land -- Introduction -- The Land -- Local Conceptualization of Land Prior to Direct Ottoman Rule -- The Onset of Ottoman Rule -- The Bases of Ottoman Land and Taxation Policy -- Implementation of Ottoman Land Policy in Transjordan -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Land in the Wake of Ottoman Policies -- Introduction -- Popular Responses to Ottoman Land Policies -- Popular Conceptualizations of Land at the Twilight of Ottoman Rule -- Growth of a Large Landowning Class -- Indebtedness and Usury -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Land in the Early Years of the Emirate -- Introduction -- Transjordan After the Ottomans -- Land and Land Tenure in the 1920s -- Land and Taxation Policies in the 1920s -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: The British Land Program -- Introduction -- Origins of the Land Program -- The Fiscal Survey -- Land Tax Law of 1933 -- Test Case for Dowson's Program: The Banī Hasan Partition and Taxation Laws -- Land Settlement -- State Lands Policy -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: Results of the Land Program -- Introduction -- Developmental Results -- Fiscal Results -- Effects on the Land -- Indebtedness -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: Land Policy, Socio-Economic Structures, and Politics -- Introduction -- Effects on Small-Scale Cultivators -- Effects on Other Social Actors -- State-Societal Cooperation and Regime Support -- Zionism and the Land Program in Jordan -- Jordanian Land Policy in the West Bank -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven: Land and the Conceptualization of Jordan -- Introduction -- Spatial Dimensions of the Country: Conceptualizing Jordan and its Villages -- New Conceptualizations of Property -- Creating a Western-Style Bureaucracy -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

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