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

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Language
English
Published/​Created
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011.
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xiv, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Ohio University Press series in ecology and history [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780821419748 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 0821419749 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2011031113
    OCLC
    724662759
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