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Eisenstadt, S. N., 241
Elite class (baknang class): and agribusiness, 159 -160
change in living standards, postwar, 148
control of jural system, 76
and development of vegetable frontier, 188
and downward mobility, 157
early experimentation with vegetables, 97
financial power, 78 -79
gradations within, 49 -50, 239 -240
relations with colonial regime, 56 -57
obligation to lend, 79
participation in vegetable boom, 122
position of children, 203
practice of usury, 78
role in prewar trade, 91
as "social benefactors," 162
social organization, prewar, 49 -51
Energy crisis, 163
Environmental degradation, 5 , 135 , 161 , 174 -186, 194 , 233 , 247
See also Agricultural chemicals; Deforestation; Erosion, Water shortages; Wildlife destruction
Erosion, 124 -125, 179 , 182 -184, 190 , 196
See also Landslides
Ethnographic classification, 10 -15