Under Osman's tree the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and environmental history
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 -- Egy...
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Sprache: | eng |
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The University of Chicago Press
2017
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Zusammenfassung: | 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. Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | xiii, 335 Seiten Illustrationen ; Karten 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9780226427171 978-0-226-42717-1 |