Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History

By:

Alan Mikhail

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017Description: 336 p., 23 cmISBN:

9780226427171

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Contents:

Preface: Osman's tree -- Introduction: the global environmental history of the Middle East -- Water. Irrigation works -- History from below -- Silt and empire -- Work. Rural muscle -- Expert measures -- Animal. Animal capital -- Brute force -- Elemental. Food and wood -- Plague ecologies -- Egypt, Iceland, SO2 -- Conclusion: empire as ecosystem.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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