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.
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2011.
- xiv, 286 p. : ill., maps.
- Ohio University Press series in ecology and history .
- Ohio University Press series in ecology and history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Human ecology--History.--Middle East
Human ecology--History.--Africa, North
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.
Electronic books.
GF670 / .E58 2011eb
304.20956
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Human ecology--History.--Middle East
Human ecology--History.--Africa, North
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.
Electronic books.
GF670 / .E58 2011eb
304.20956