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Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics

by Hanna Batatu

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Other books by Hanna Batatu

The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq by Hanna Batatu

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The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq
by Hanna Batatu

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)