ISBN:
1139078933
,
9781139078931
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 347 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Behrens-Abouseif, Doris Alan MIKHAIL, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History. Studies in Environment and History. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxxii + 350 pp. ISBN: 978-1-107-00876-2 (hbk.). 95.00 2011
Series Statement:
Studies in environment and history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mikhail, Alan, 1979- Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt
DDC:
304.20962
Keywords:
Human beings Effect of environment on
;
Irrigation Social aspects
;
Technology and civilization
;
Human ecology
;
Human ecology
;
Irrigation ; Social aspects
;
Technology and civilization
;
Human beings ; Effect of environment on
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography
;
History
;
Egypt History 1517-1882
;
Egypt
Abstract:
"In the first ever environmental history of Ottoman Egypt, Alan Mikhail brings to life the complex relationships between Egyptians, their rural world along the Nile, and the Ottoman Empire. This detailed account of irrigation, grain cultivation, the movement of wood, disease, and labor challenges many longstanding ideas in both Ottoman and Egyptian history while at the same time demonstrating how environmental history offers new ways of thinking about the Middle East. This path braking book should be read by all those with interests in the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, environmental history, and early modern history"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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