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245 0 0 _aEnvironmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy Mitchell.
260 _aAthens, Ohio :
_bOhio University Press,
_cc2011.
300 _axiv, 286 p. :
_bill., maps.
490 1 _aOhio University Press series in ecology and history
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aHuman ecology
_zMiddle East
_xHistory.
650 0 _aHuman ecology
_zAfrica, North
_xHistory.
651 0 _aMiddle East
_xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 _aAfrica, North
_xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 _aMiddle East
_xEnvironmental conditions
_xHistoriography.
651 0 _aAfrica, North
_xEnvironmental conditions
_xHistoriography.
651 0 _aMiddle East
_xForeign public opinion, British.
651 0 _aMiddle East
_xForeign public opinion, French.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xColonies
_xHistory.
651 0 _aFrance
_xColonies
_xHistory.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aDavis, Diana K.
700 1 _aBurke, Edmund,
_d1940-
700 1 _aMitchell, Timothy,
_d1955-
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
830 0 _aOhio University Press series in ecology and history.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10509941
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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