Samuel Dolbee (Tennessee Vanderbilt University)

Locusts of Power

Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East

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Produktbeschreibung

Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by tracing the movement of locusts and their relationship to people in motion and states in the Jazira, the borderlands region of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Environment and History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 158mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781009200318
• ISBN-10: 1009200313
• Artikelnr.: 65688948

Autorenporträt

Samuel Dolbee is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sultans of the open lands (1858-1890)
2. 'Savage swarms' (1890-1908)
3. 'Weren't we a lot like those creatures?' (1908-1918)
4. 'Like swarms of locusts' (1918-1939)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.