1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777784103321

Autore

Hart Peter <1963-2010.>

Titolo

The I.R.A. at war, 1916-1923 [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-383-03924-0

1-281-34617-9

9786611346171

0-19-153094-8

1-4294-6011-3

Descrizione fisica

xv, 274 p. : maps

Disciplina

941.5082/1

Soggetti

Irish question

Ireland History Autonomy and independence movements

Ireland History 1910-1921

Ireland History Civil War, 1922-1923

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

Sommario/riassunto

What kind of people joined the I.R.A.' What was the Irish Revolution? Did Michael Collins order the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson? Were Protestants ethnically cleansed from southern Ireland? Using new research and questioning old assumptions, these sparkling essays by Peter Hart address these and other controversies to suggest new ways of looking at the history of the Irish Revolution of 1916-23.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827332903321

Autore

Mikhail Alan <1979->

Titolo

Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt : an environmental history / / Alan Mikhail [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-06861-X

1-139-06413-4

1-107-22203-6

1-139-07093-2

0-511-97722-0

1-139-07665-5

1-283-11288-4

1-139-08120-9

9786613112880

1-139-08347-3

1-139-07893-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 347 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in environment and history

Classificazione

HIS026000

Disciplina

304.20962

Soggetti

Human ecology - Egypt

Human beings - Effect of environment on - Egypt

Irrigation - Social aspects - Egypt

Technology and civilization

Egypt History 1517-1882

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- empire by nature -- Watering the earth -- The food chain -- The framework of empire -- In working order -- From nature to disease -- Another Nile -- Conclusion -- the imagination and reality of public works.

Sommario/riassunto

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various



towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.