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Title Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa [electronic resource] / edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy Mitchell.

Imprint Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2011.

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Description xiv, 286 p. : ill., maps.
Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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.
Human ecology -- Africa, North -- History.
Middle East -- Environmental conditions.
Africa, North -- Environmental conditions.
Middle East -- Environmental conditions -- Historiography.
Africa, North -- Environmental conditions -- Historiography.
Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, British.
Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, French.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
France -- Colonies -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Davis, Diana K.
Burke, Edmund, 1940-
Mitchell, Timothy, 1955-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780821419748 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780821444252 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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