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Water on Sand - Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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Water on Sand - Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand
rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the
Little Ice Age to the Cold War. As the first holistic environmental
history of the region over the last half millennium, it shows the
intimate connections between peoples and environments and how these
relationships shaped political, economic, and social history in
startling and unforeseen ways. Nearly all political powers in the
region based their rule on the management and control of natural
resources, and nearly all individuals were in constant communion
with the natural world. To grasp how these multiple histories were
central to the pasts of the Middle East and North Africa, the
chapters in this book evidence the power of environmental history
to open up new avenues of historical research and understanding.
Water on Sand furthermore traces how the Middle East and North
Africa deeply affected the global histories of climate, disease,
trade, energy, environmental politics, ecological manipulation, and
much more. Lying at the intersection of three continents and as
many seas, the Middle East has obviously been central to world
history for millennia. Studying the ecological implications of
these global connections, both for the region itself and for the
rest of the world, helps to bring the Middle East and North Africa
into global history and to show how the region must be an essential
part of any understanding of the environments of Eurasia over the
last five hundred years. Deeply researched, globally comparative,
and highly provocative, Water on Sand represents both a new kind of
Middle Eastern history and a new kind of environmental history.
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