TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikhail,Alan
TI  - Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt: an environmental history 
SN  - 9789774165542
U1  - 953.0962 21
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of environment on
KW  - Irrigation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technology and civilization
KW  - History
KW  - 1517-1882
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-330) and index
N2  - "In the first ever environmental history of Ottoman Egypt, Alan Mikhail brings to life the complex relationships between Egyptians, their rural world along the Nile, and the Ottoman Empire. This detailed account of irrigation, grain cultivation, the movement of wood, disease, and labor challenges many longstanding ideas in both Ottoman and Egyptian history while at the same time demonstrating how environmental history offers new ways of thinking about the Middle East. This path braking book should be read by all those with interests in the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, environmental history, and early modern history"--
ER  -