LEADER 04301nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910457847403321 005 20230725053749.0 010 $a0-8214-4425-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000062250 035 $a(EBL)1743690 035 $a(OCoLC)884016748 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565201 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354486 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565201 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10533267 035 $a(PQKB)10074607 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743690 035 $a(OCoLC)768572206 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15919 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743690 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509941 035 $a(ScCtBLL)4c349b84-cf48-41b7-a8fc-372e5f09ac47 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000062250 100 $a20110726d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEnvironmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy Mitchell 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cOhio University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 225 1 $aOhio University Press series in ecology and history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2040-2 311 $a0-8214-1974-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThe landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to 410 0$aOhio University Press series in ecology and history. 606 $aHuman ecology$zMiddle East$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$zAfrica, North$xHistory 607 $aMiddle East$xEnvironmental conditions 607 $aAfrica, North$xEnvironmental conditions 607 $aMiddle East$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistoriography 607 $aAfrica, North$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistoriography 607 $aMiddle East$xForeign public opinion, British 607 $aMiddle East$xForeign public opinion, French 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory 607 $aFrance$xColonies$xHistory 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 676 $a304.20956 701 $aDavis$b Diana K$0848581 701 $aBurke$b Edmund$f1940-$0137333 701 $aMitchell$b Timothy$f1955-$0658201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457847403321 996 $aEnvironmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa$91895380 997 $aUNINA