| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies in environment and history |
|
Studies in environment and history.
|
| Contents |
Introduction: Empire by Nature -- 1. Watering the Earth -- 2. The Food Chain -- 3. The Framework of Empire -- 4. In Working Order -- 5. From Nature to Disease -- 6. Another Nile; Conclusion: The Imagination and Reality of Public Works -- Appendix: Citations for Cases Included in Tables 2.1-2.4 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"In the first ever environmental history of Ottoman Egypt, Alan Mikhail brings to life the complex relationships between Egyptians, their rural world along the Nile, and the Ottoman Empire. This detailed account of irrigation, grain cultivation, the movement of wood, disease, and labor challenges many longstanding ideas in both Ottoman and Egyptian history while at the same time demonstrating how environmental history offers new ways of thinking about the Middle East. This path braking book should be read by all those with interests in the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, environmental history, and early modern history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Egypt
|
|
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Egypt
|
|
Irrigation -- Social aspects -- Egypt
|
|
Technology and civilization.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE Human Geography.
|
|
Human beings -- Effect of environment on
|
|
Human ecology
|
|
Irrigation -- Social aspects
|
|
Technology and civilization
|
|
Umwelt
|
|
Geschichte
|
|
Osmanen (dynastie)
|
|
Milieu.
|
|
Technologie.
|
| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- History -- 1517-1882. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041297
|
| Subject |
Egypt
|
|
Ägypten
|
|
Egypte.
|
|
Osmaanse rijk.
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781139083478 |
|
1139083473 |
|
9780511977220 |
|
0511977220 |
|
9781139081207 |
|
1139081209 |
|
1139064134 |
|
9781139064132 |
|
1107222036 |
|
9781107222038 |
|
1139070932 |
|
9781139070935 |
|
1139076655 |
|
9781139076654 |
|
1283112884 |
|
9781283112888 |
|
9786613112880 |
|
6613112887 |
|
1139078933 |
|
9781139078931 |
|
