TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alan Mikhail
TI  - Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
SN  - 9780226427171
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - Middle East
KW  - 1517-1882
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Ottoman Empire (1288-1918)
N1  - Missing, 2023; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -