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Diana K. Davis - Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa - 9780821419748 - V9780821419748
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Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

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Description for Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa Hardback. The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. This title examines culturally constructed views of the environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the people of the region. Editor(s): Davis, Diana K.; Burke, Edmund, III. Series: Ecology & History. Num Pages: 280 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1FB; RGL; RNC; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.

The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to critically examine culturally constructed views of the environmental history of the Middle ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Ecology & History
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821419748
SKU
V9780821419748
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Ref
99-1

About Diana K. Davis
Diana K. Davis is an associate professor of history at the University of California at Davis. She has published in Environmental History, Geoforum, Cultural Geographies, the Journal of Arid Environments, and Secheresse. She is the author of Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Edmund (“Terry”) Burke III is a research professor of ... Read more

Reviews for Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
“This well-edited volume can be helpful both for scholars who would like to focus on particular geographic areas of the Middle East and North Africa, and for those interested in a wider view of this region’s history. By questioning dichotomies built by ‘orientalist’ and ‘postcolonial’ scholars alike, the articles gathered in this volume offer a fresh and unusual perception of ... Read more

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