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Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa

By Alan Mikhail

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0199768676, 9780199768677
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3238025 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
352\347
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-12-07 23:04:22
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From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic environmental history of the region, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how these relationships shaped political, economic, and social history in startling and unforeseen ways. Nearly all political powers in the region based their rule on the management and control of natural resources, and nearly all individuals were in constant communion with the natural world. To grasp how these multiple histories were central to the pasts of the Middle East and North Africa, the chapters in this book evidence the power of environmental history to open up new avenues of scholarly inquiry.

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