1.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004346436407536

Autore

Visconti, Alessandro

Titolo

Paesaggi Lombardi : dal Baradello allo Spluga / itinerari sentimentali di alex Visconti ; impressioni pittoriche di Giannino Grossi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Tip. Bertarelli, 1935-1936

Descrizione fisica

80 p., [40] carte di tav. : ill. ; 27 cm

Collana

Paesaggi lombardi

Altri autori (Persone)

Grossi, Giannino

Disciplina

914.5204

Soggetti

Lombardia Viaggi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia