| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-307) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Making environmental history accessible to scholars of the Middle East and the history of the region accessible to environmental historians, this book opens up new fields of scholarly inquiry. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Middle East -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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Middle East. |
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History. |
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Human ecology -- Africa, North -- History.
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North Africa. |
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Middle East -- Environmental conditions.i.
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Middle East Region. |
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Africa, North -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Mikhail, Alan, 1979-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Water on sand. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012 9780199768677 (DLC) 2012022534 (OCoLC)795687189 |
| ISBN |
9780199877577 (electronic book) |
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0199877572 (electronic book) |
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019997960X (electronic book) |
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9780199979608 (electronic book) |
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9780199768677 |
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0199768676 |
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9780199768660 |
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0199768668 |
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