TY - BOOK AU - Davis,Diana K. AU - Burke,Edmund AU - Mitchell,Timothy ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa T2 - Ohio University Press series in ecology and history AV - GF670 .E58 2011 U1 - 304.20956 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Athens, Ohio PB - Ohio University Press KW - Human ecology KW - Middle East KW - History KW - Africa, North KW - Environmental conditions KW - Historiography KW - Foreign public opinion, British KW - Foreign public opinion, French KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - France KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Imperialism, Orientalism, and the Environment in the Middle East : History, Policy, Power, and Practice / Diana K. Davis -- "A Rebellion of Technology" : Development, Policing, and the British Arabian Imaginary / Priya Satia -- Restoring Roman Nature : French Identity and North African Environmental History / Diana K. Davis -- Body of Work : Water and Reimagining the Sahara in the Era of Decolonization / George R. Trumbull IV -- From the Bottom Up : The Nile, Silt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Drafting a Map of Colonial Egypt : The 1902 Aswan Dam, Historical Imagination, and the Production of Agricultural Geography / Jennifer L. Derr -- Remapping the Nation, Critiquing the State : Environmental Narratives and Desert Land Reclamation in Egypt / Jeannie Sowers -- Salts, Soils, and (Un)Sustainabilities? Analyzing Narratives of Environmental Change in Southeastern Turkey / Leila M. Harris -- Hydro-Imaginaries and the Construction of the Political Geography of the Jordan River : The Johnston Mission, 1953/56 / Samer Alatout -- Environmentalism Deferred : Nationalisms and Israeli/Palestinian Imaginaries / Shaul Cohen; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1743690 ER -