LEADER 03357nam 2200445 a 450 001 9910779758003321 005 20230803020844.0 010 $a0-19-987757-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000001064197 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24668195 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1073470 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001064197 100 $a20121015d2013 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 00$aWater on sand$b[electronic resource] $eenvironmental histories of the Middle East and North Africa /$fedited by Alan Mikhail 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (352 p. ) $cill 311 $a0-19-976866-8 311 $a1-299-67444-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aMaking environmental history accessible to scholars of the Middle East and the history of the region accessible to environmental historians, this book opens up new fields of scholarly inquiry. 330 $bFrom Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War. As the first holistic environmental history of the region over the last half millennium, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how these relationships shaped political, economic, and social history in startling and unforeseen ways. Nearly all political powers in the region based their rule on the management and control of natural resources, and nearly all individuals were in constant communion with the natural world. To grasp how these multiple histories were central to the pasts of the Middle East and North Africa, the chapters in this book evidence the power of environmental history to open up new avenues of historical research and understanding. Water on Sand furthermore traces how the Middle East and North Africa deeply affected the global histories of climate, disease, trade, energy, environmental politics, ecological manipulation, and much more. Lying at the intersection of three continents and as many seas, the Middle East has obviously been central to world history for millennia. Studying the ecological implications of these global connections, both for the region itself and for the rest of the world, helps to bring the Middle East and North Africa into global history and to show how the region must be an essential part of any understanding of the environments of Eurasia over the last five hundred years. Deeply researched, globally comparative, and highly provocative, Water on Sand represents both a new kind of Middle Eastern history and a new kind of environmental history. 606 $aEnvironment and ecology$aHuman ecology$zMiddle East$2eflch$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$zAfrica, North$xHistory 607 $aMiddle East$xEnvironmental conditions 607 $aAfrica, North$xEnvironmental conditions 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 7$aEnvironment and ecology.$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 676 $a304.20956 701 $aMikhail$b Alan$f1979-$0479792 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779758003321 996 $aWater on sand$93844572 997 $aUNINA