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.
Contributor(s): Davis, Diana K | Burke, Edmund | Mitchell, Timothy | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Ohio University Press series in ecology and history: Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2011Description: xiv, 286 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): 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 -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 304.20956 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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