Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Ohio University Press series in ecology and history |
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Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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Contents |
Introduction: Imperialism, Orientalism, and the Environment in the Middle East : History, Policy, Power, and Practice / Diana K. Davis -- "A Rebellion of Technology" : Development, Policing, and the British Arabian Imaginary / Priya Satia -- Restoring Roman Nature : French Identity and North African Environmental History / Diana K. Davis -- Body of Work : Water and Reimagining the Sahara in the Era of Decolonization / George R. Trumbull IV -- From the Bottom Up : The Nile, Silt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Drafting a Map of Colonial Egypt : The 1902 Aswan Dam, Historical Imagination, and the Production of Agricultural Geography / Jennifer L. Derr -- Remapping the Nation, Critiquing the State : Environmental Narratives and Desert Land Reclamation in Egypt / Jeannie Sowers -- Salts, Soils, and (Un)Sustainabilities? Analyzing Narratives of Environmental Change in Southeastern Turkey / Leila M. Harris -- Hydro-Imaginaries and the Construction of the Political Geography of the Jordan River : The Johnston Mission, 1953/56 / Samer Alatout -- Environmentalism Deferred : Nationalisms and Israeli/Palestinian Imaginaries / Shaul Cohen |
Summary |
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume t |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
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English |
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Subject |
Human ecology -- Middle East -- History
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Human ecology -- Africa, North -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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French colonies
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British colonies
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Ecology
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Human ecology
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Public opinion, British
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Public opinion, French
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Humanekologi -- Mellanöstern -- historia.
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Humanekologi -- Nordafrika -- historia.
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Environment and ecology.
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SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Environmental conditions
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Africa, North -- Environmental conditions
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Middle East -- Environmental conditions -- Historiography
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Africa, North -- Environmental conditions -- Historiography
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Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, British
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Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, French
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056645
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France -- Colonies -- History
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Subject |
North Africa
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Middle East
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Davis, Diana K.
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Burke, Edmund, III, 1940-
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ISBN |
0821444255 |
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9780821444252 |
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0821420402 |
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9780821420409 |
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