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Urban histories of race and housing currently ignore the daily conflicts over debt, occupancy, and autonomy that characterized the private market for shelter and home in the United States. The historical literature, instead, has concentrated on the role of government policy, eco…

This study aims to analyze how Hanafi law defined sharecropping and tenancy agreements, and tenant/landlord rights and obligations in the context of Ottoman Syria from the late sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. With the increasing prevalence of sharecropping arra…