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Seeds of Power : Explorations in Ottoman Environmental History.
This edited volume is the first collective effort to take an original look at the Ottomans through the lens of environmental history.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winwick, Cambridgeshire :
The White Horse Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Foreword: Ottoman and Nature; Figures, Maps and Tables; Guide to spelling and pronunciation of Turkish words; Acknowledgements; Biographies; The Ottoman Environments Revisited; Searching for the 'Little Ice Age' Effects in the Ottoman Greek Lands: The Cases of Salonica and Crete; A 'Magnificent' Climate: Demography, Land and Labour in Sixteenth-Century Anatolia; Producing Grapes and Wine on the Bosporus in the Eighteenth Century: The Testimony of Domenico Sestini; Fruits of Empire: Figs, Raisins, and Transformation of Western Anatolia in the Late Nineteenth Century*
- 'It's a Bad Fate to be Born Near a Forest': Forest, People and Buffaloes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century North-western AnatoliaWater Management Issues in an Ottoman Province: The Case of Cyprus in the Seventeenth Century; Nature's 'Cosmopolitanism': Villagers, Engineers and Animals along Terkos Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul; Cesspools, Mosquitos and Fever: An Environmental History of Malaria Prevention in Ismailia and Port Said, 1869-1910; The Rice Debates: Political Ecology in the Ottoman Parliament