Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Burke, Edmund, III, 1940-, Davis, Diana K.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2011]
Series:	Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Subjects:	Human ecology > Africa, North > History. Human ecology > Middle East > History. France > Colonies > History. Great Britain > Colonies > History. Middle East > Foreign public opinion, French. Middle East > Foreign public opinion, British. Africa, North > Environmental conditions > Historiography. Middle East > Environmental conditions > Historiography. Africa, North > Environmental conditions. Middle East > Environmental conditions. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.