The province of Baghdad -- Agriculture -- Tax farming and public finance -- Land problems -- Land reform -- Modifications of the land and tax systems -- Land and tax systems during the British occupation and mandate period -- The decline of the Ottoman legacy.

Half of Indonesia's massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, enacted in the wake of the Indonesian Revolution, was supposed to provide access to land and...