Entrepreneurial Management of Tunisia's Private Habous Patrimony, 1902-1914

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Title:	Entrepreneurial Management of Tunisia's Private Habous Patrimony, 1902-1914
Author:	Cannon, Byron D.
Year:	1985
Periodical:	Maghreb Review
Volume:	10
Issue:	2-3
Period:	March-June
Pages:	41-50
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Tunisia France
Subjects:	colonialism land reform Islamic law property rights History and Exploration Economics and Trade Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:	Analysis of changing conceptions and practices concerning productive exploitation of private habous (religiously endowed agricultural land) patrimony in Tunisia during the period 1902-1914, when this sector of the land market became a prime object of formal proposals for legal reform. As such proposals became concrete rulings in 1902 and 1913, identifiable social sub-groups affected by changes in the agricultural market had either to adjust to new relationships of production which these rulings tended to support, or recede more and more from the actual economic process. In this way, considerable portions of productive land were effectively removed from what became an atrophied Tunisian-controlled 'modern' agricultural sector. Notes.