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008 110726s2011 ohuab b s001 0 eng
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn724662759
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050 00 $aGF670$b.E58 2011
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245 00 $aEnvironmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa /$cedited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy Mitchell.
260 $aAthens :$bOhio University Press,$cc2011.
300 $axiv, 286 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
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.
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.
700 1 $aDavis, Diana K.
700 1 $aBurke, Edmund,$d1940-
830 0 $aOhio University Press series in ecology and history.