RT Book
T1 Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt: an environmental history
T2 Studies in environment and history
A1 Mikhail, Alan 1979-
LA English
PP Cambridge u.a.
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2013
ED 1. pbk. ed.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1601769261
AB In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.
AB Introduction -- empire by nature -- Watering the earth -- The food chain -- The framework of empire -- In working order -- From nature to disease -- Another Nile -- Conclusion -- the imagination and reality of public works
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN GF711
SN 9781107640184
SN 9781107008762
K1 Human Ecology : Egypt.
K1 Human Beings : Effect of environment on : Egypt.
K1 Irrigation : Social aspects : Egypt.
K1 Technology and civilization
K1 Irrigation : Social aspects : Egypt
K1 Human Beings : Effect of environment on : Egypt
K1 Human Ecology : Egypt
K1 Human ecology ; Egypt
K1 Human beings ; Effect of environment on ; Egypt
K1 Irrigation ; Social aspects ; Egypt
K1 Egypt ; History ; 1517-1882
K1 Egypt : History, 1517-1882.
K1 Egypt : History : 1517-1882
K1 Human ecology : Egypt
K1 Human beings : Effect of environment on : Egypt