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

Other author Davis, Diana K.
Other author Burke, Edmund, 1940-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAthens : Ohio University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from UPCC Books History 2011 Subject Collection
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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.

SeriesOhio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history. ^A472496
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011031113
ISBN9780821419748 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0821419749 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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