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Arid Empire - The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia (Hardcover)
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Arid Empire - The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia (Hardcover)
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The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been
colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from the
Middle East. For example: In 1856, a caravan of thirty-three camels
arrived in Indianola, Texas, led by a Syrian cameleer the Americans
called "Hi Jolly." This "camel corps," the US government hoped,
could help the army secure the new southwest swath of the country
just wrested from Mexico. Though the dream of the camel corps - and
sadly, the camels - died, the idea of drawing on expertise,
knowledge, and practices from the desert countries of the Middle
East did not. As Natalie Koch demonstrates in this evocative,
narrative history, the exchange of colonial technologies between
the Arabian Peninsula and United States over the past two centuries
- from date palm farming and desert agriculture to the utopian
sci-fi dreams of Biosphere 2 and Frank Herbert's Dune - bound the
two regions together, solidifying the colonization of the US West
and, eventually, the reach of American power into the Middle East.
Koch teaches us to see deserts anew, not as mythic sites of romance
or empty wastelands but as an "arid empire," a crucial political
space where imperial dreams coalesce.
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