TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Diana K.
AU  - Burke,Edmund
TI  - Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
T2  - Series in Ecology and History Series
SN  - 9780821444252
AV  - GF670 -- .E58 2011eb 
U1  - 304.20956 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Athens, OH
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Human ecology -- Middle East -- History
KW  - Human ecology -- Africa, North -- History
KW  - Middle East -- Environmental conditions
KW  - Africa, North -- Environmental conditions
KW  - Middle East -- Environmental conditions -- Historiography
KW  - Africa, North -- Environmental conditions -- Historiography
KW  - Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, British
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Imperialism, Orientalism, and the Environment in the Middle East -- Chapter 1. "A Rebellion of Technology" -- Chapter 2. Restoring Roman Nature -- Chapter 3. Body of Work -- Chapter 4. From the Bottom Up -- Chapter 5. Drafting a Map of Colonial Egypt -- Chapter 6. Remapping the Nation, Critiquing the State -- Chapter 7. Salts, Soils, and (Un)Sustainabilities? -- Chapter 8. Hydro-Imaginaries and the Construction of the Political Geography of the Jordan River -- Chapter 9. Environmentalism Deferred -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region
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