04301nam 2200721 a 450 991045784740332120230725053749.00-8214-4425-5(CKB)2550000000062250(EBL)1743690(OCoLC)884016748(SSID)ssj0000565201(PQKBManifestationID)11354486(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565201(PQKBWorkID)10533267(PQKB)10074607(MiAaPQ)EBC1743690(OCoLC)768572206(MdBmJHUP)muse15919(Au-PeEL)EBL1743690(CaPaEBR)ebr10509941(ScCtBLL)4c349b84-cf48-41b7-a8fc-372e5f09ac47(EXLCZ)99255000000006225020110726d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnvironmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa[electronic resource] /edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy MitchellAthens, Ohio Ohio University Pressc20111 online resource (312 p.)Ohio University Press series in ecology and historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-2040-2 0-8214-1974-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: 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.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. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume toOhio University Press series in ecology and history.Human ecologyMiddle EastHistoryHuman ecologyAfrica, NorthHistoryMiddle EastEnvironmental conditionsAfrica, NorthEnvironmental conditionsMiddle EastEnvironmental conditionsHistoriographyAfrica, NorthEnvironmental conditionsHistoriographyMiddle EastForeign public opinion, BritishMiddle EastForeign public opinion, FrenchGreat BritainColoniesHistoryFranceColoniesHistoryHuman ecologyHistory.Human ecologyHistory.304.20956Davis Diana K848581Burke Edmund1940-137333Mitchell Timothy1955-658201MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457847403321Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa1895380UNINA