Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Davis, Diana K., Burke, Edmund, 1940-, Mitchell, Timothy, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2011.
Series:Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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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.