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Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
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- Creator
- edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy Mitchell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0821420402, 9780821420409, 9780821419748, 0821444255, 0821419749, 9780821444252
- OCLC
- ocn884016748, ocn724662759, ocn768572206
- 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
Subjects
- 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.