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Water on sand : environmental histories of the middle east and north africa /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.