Water on Sand : Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9780199768660 | 0199768668
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/7/2012
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From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War. As the first holistic environmental history of the region over the last half millennium, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how these relationships shaped political, economic, and social history in startling and unforeseen ways. Nearly all political powers in the region based their rule on the management and control of natural resources, and nearly ... MORE
Contributors
Introduction - Middle East Environmental History: The Fallow between Two Fields, Alan Mikhail
1. The Eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa's Environmental History, J.R. McNeill
2. History and Animal Energy in the Arid Zone, Richard W. Bulliet
3. The Little Ice Age Crisis of the Ottoman Empire: A Conjuncture in Middle East Environmental History, Sam White
4. Fish and Fishermen in Ottoman Istanbul, Suraiya Faroqhi
5. Plague and Environment in Late Ottoman ... MORE
Alan Mikhail is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History, which won the Roger Owen Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association and the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize from Yale University.
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