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Water on sand : environmental histories of the middle east and north africa / edited by Alan Mikhail

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012

Online-Ressource (xviii, 326 p) : ill., maps

Englisch

Introduction: Middle East environmental history: the fallow between two fields / Alan MikhailThe eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa's environmental history / J.R. McNeill -- History and animal energy in the arid zone / Richard W. Bulliet -- The Little Ice Age crisis of the Ottoman Empire: a conjuncture in Middle East environmental history / Sam White -- Fish and fishermen in Ottoman Istanbul / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Plague and environment in Late Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Through an ocean of sand: pastoralism and the equestrian culture of the Eurasian Steppe / Arash Khazeni -- Enclosing nature in North Africa: national parks and the politics of environmental history / Diana K. Davis -- Building the past: rockscapes and the Aswan High Dam in Egypt / Nancy Y. Reynolds -- The rise and decline of environmentalism in Lebanon / Karim Makdisi -- State of nature: the politics of water in the making of Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones -- Expanding the Nile's watershed: the science and politics of land reclamation in Egypt / Jessica Barnes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-307) and index

Print version: Water on sand

0-19-987757-2 (electronic bk.); 978-0-19-987757-7 ( : electronic bk.)

0-19-976867-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-19-976866-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-19-976867-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-19-976866-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Human ecology -- Middle East -- History ; Middle East -- Environmental conditions.i ; Human ecology -- Africa, North -- History ; Africa, North -- Environmental conditions ; Human ecology -- Africa, North -- History ; Middle East -- Environmental conditions.i ; Human ecology -- Middle East -- History ; Africa, North -- Environmental conditions ; Electronic book

Middle East ; North Africa ; Anthropogeography & Human Ecology ; Anthropology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; Ecology ; Social Sciences ; Human ecology ; History

Introduction: Middle East environmental history: the fallow between two fields / Alan Mikhail -- The eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa's environmental history / J.R. McNeill -- History and animal energy in the arid zone / Richard W. Bulliet -- The Little Ice Age crisis of the Ottoman Empire: a conjuncture in Middle East environmental history / Sam White -- Fish and fishermen in Ottoman Istanbul / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Plague and environment in Late Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Through an ocean of sand: pastoralism and the equestrian culture of the Eurasian Steppe / Arash Khazeni -- Enclosing nature in North Africa: national parks and the politics of environmental history / Diana K. Davis -- Building the past: rockscapes and the Aswan High Dam in Egypt / Nancy Y. Reynolds -- The rise and decline of environmentalism in Lebanon / Karim Makdisi -- State of nature: the politics of water in the making of Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones -- Expanding the Nile's watershed: the science and politics of land reclamation in Egypt / Jessica Barnes