| Description |
xiv, 286 p. : ill., maps. |
| Series |
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history |
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Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Middle East -- History.
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Human ecology -- Africa, North -- History.
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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.
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France -- Colonies -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Diana K.
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Burke, Edmund, 1940-
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Mitchell, Timothy, 1955-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780821419748 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780821444252 (electronic bk.) |
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