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Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
Full title: | Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History |
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ISBN: | 9780226427171 |
ISBN 10: | 022642717X |
Authors: | Mikhail, Alan |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Edition: | Illustrated |
Num. pages: | 352 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2017 |
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Synopsis
The early modern Middle East was a crucial zone of connection between Europe and the Mediterranean world, on the one hand, and South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and sub-Saharan Africa, on the other. Accordingly, global trade, climate, and disease both affected and were affected by what was happening in the Middle East s many environments. The trans-territorial and trans-temporal character of environmental history helps shed new light on the history of the region, and Alan Mikhail s latest tackles major topics in environmental history: natural resource management, climate, human and animal labor, water control, disease, and the politics of nature. It also reveals how one of the world s most important religious traditions, Islam, has related to the natural world. This is a model book that sets the course for Middle East environmental history.