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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| Superior document: | Ohio University Press series in ecology and history |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 286 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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.