ISBN:
9781107640184
,
9781107008762
Language:
English
Pages:
XXV, [VI], 347 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
1. pbk. ed.
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
DDC:
304.20962
Keywords:
Human ecology Egypt.
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Human beings Effect of environment on
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Egypt.
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Irrigation Social aspects
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Egypt.
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Technology and civilization.
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Irrigation Social aspects
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Technology and civilization
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Human beings Effect of environment on
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Human ecology
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Human ecology ; Egypt
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Human beings ; Effect of environment on ; Egypt
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Irrigation ; Social aspects ; Egypt
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Technology and civilization
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Egypt ; History ; 1517-1882
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Egypt History, 1517-1882.
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Egypt History 1517-1882
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Human ecology
;
Egypt
;
Human beings
;
Effect of environment on
;
Egypt
;
Irrigation
;
Social aspects
;
Egypt
;
Technology and civilization
;
Egypt
;
History
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1517-1882
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Ägypten
;
Umwelt
;
Natur
;
Herrschaft
;
Humanökologie
;
Menschheit
;
Bewässerung
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Technologie
;
Geschichte
;
Bewässerung
;
Zivilisation
;
Mensch
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
Abstract:
In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.
Abstract:
Introduction -- empire by nature -- Watering the earth -- The food chain -- The framework of empire -- In working order -- From nature to disease -- Another Nile -- Conclusion -- the imagination and reality of public works
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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