ISBN:
0199877572
,
9780199877577
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 326 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Parallel Title:
Print version Water on sand
DDC:
304.20956
Keywords:
Human ecology History
;
Human ecology History
;
Human ecology History
;
Human ecology History
;
Anthropogeography & Human Ecology
;
Anthropology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography
;
Ecology
;
Social Sciences
;
Human ecology
;
History
;
Middle East Environmental conditions.i
;
Africa, North Environmental conditions
;
Middle East Environmental conditions.i
;
Africa, North Environmental conditions
;
Middle East
;
North Africa
;
Electronic book
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-307) and index
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