Making environmental history accessible to scholars of the Middle East and the history of the region accessible to environmental historians, Water on Sand opens up new fields of scholarly inquiry.
Making environmental history accessible to scholars of the Middle East and the history of the region accessible to environmental historians, Water on Sand opens up new fields of scholarly inquiry.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alan Mikhail is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History , which won the Roger Owen Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association and the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication from Yale University.
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* Contributors * Introduction - Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow between Two Fields- Alan Mikhail * 1. The Eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa's Environmental History- J.R. McNeill * 2. History and Animal Energy in the Arid Zone- Richard W. Bulliet * 3. The Little Ice Age Crisis of the Ottoman Empire: A Conjuncture in Middle East Environmental History- Sam White * 4. Fish and Fishermen in Ottoman Istanbul- Suraiya Faroqhi * 5. Plague and Environment in Late Ottoman Egypt- Alan Mikhail * 6. Through an Ocean of Sand: Pastoralism and the Equestrian Culture of the Eurasian Steppe- Arash Khazeni * 7. Enclosing Nature in North Africa: National Parks and the Politics of Environmental History- Diana K. Davis * 8. Building the Past: Rockscapes and the Aswan High Dam in Egypt- Nancy Reynolds * 9. The Rise and Decline of Environmentalism in Lebanon- Karim Makdisi * 10. State of Nature: The Politics of Water in the Making of Saudi Arabia- Toby C. Jones * 11. Expanding the Nile's Watershed: The Science and Politics of Land Reclamation in Egypt- Jessica Barnes * Bibliography * Index
* Contributors * Introduction - Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow between Two Fields- Alan Mikhail * 1. The Eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa's Environmental History- J.R. McNeill * 2. History and Animal Energy in the Arid Zone- Richard W. Bulliet * 3. The Little Ice Age Crisis of the Ottoman Empire: A Conjuncture in Middle East Environmental History- Sam White * 4. Fish and Fishermen in Ottoman Istanbul- Suraiya Faroqhi * 5. Plague and Environment in Late Ottoman Egypt- Alan Mikhail * 6. Through an Ocean of Sand: Pastoralism and the Equestrian Culture of the Eurasian Steppe- Arash Khazeni * 7. Enclosing Nature in North Africa: National Parks and the Politics of Environmental History- Diana K. Davis * 8. Building the Past: Rockscapes and the Aswan High Dam in Egypt- Nancy Reynolds * 9. The Rise and Decline of Environmentalism in Lebanon- Karim Makdisi * 10. State of Nature: The Politics of Water in the Making of Saudi Arabia- Toby C. Jones * 11. Expanding the Nile's Watershed: The Science and Politics of Land Reclamation in Egypt- Jessica Barnes * Bibliography * Index
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