Water on Sand (eBook, PDF)

Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
Redaktion: Mikhail, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic environmental history of the region, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how these relationships shaped political, economic, and social history in startling and unforeseen ways. Nearly all political powers in the region based their rule on the management and control of natural resources, and nearly all individuals were in constant communion with the natural world. To grasp how these multiple histories were central to the pasts of the Middle East and North Africa, the chapters in this book evidence the power of environmental history to open up new avenues of scholarly inquiry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199877577
• Artikelnr.: 38141476

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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