Under Osman's Tree The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History |
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| Author:
| Mikhail, Alan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-42717-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2017 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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.