Resurrecting the granary of Rome [electronic resource] : environmental history and French colonial expansion in North Africa / Diana K. Davis.
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TextSeries: Ohio University Press series in ecology and historyPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2007.Description: xv, 296 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), mapsSubject(s): - Human ecology -- Africa, North -- History
- Desertification -- Africa, North
- Deforestation -- Africa, North
- Africa, North -- Environmental conditions
- Africa, North -- History -- 1517-1882
- Africa, North -- History -- 1882-
- France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History
- France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Economic policy
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- GF702 .D38 2007eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-288) and index.
Imperial stories and empirical evidence -- Nature, empire, and narrative origins, 1830-48 -- Idealism, capitalism, and the development of the narrative, 1848-70 -- Triumph of the narrative, 1871-1918 -- Narrative, science, policy, and practice, 1919 to independence -- Decolonization, the colonial narrative, and environmental policy today.
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