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By Alan Mikhail
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From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the crimson, Water on Sand rewrites the historical past of the center East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the chilly warfare period. because the first holistic environmental background of the quarter, it exhibits the intimate connections among peoples and environments and the way those relationships formed political, fiscal, and social heritage in startling and unexpected methods. approximately all political powers within the sector dependent their rule at the administration and keep an eye on of typical assets, and approximately all contributors have been in consistent communion with the flora and fauna. to understand how those a number of histories have been relevant to the pasts of the center East and North Africa, the chapters during this e-book proof the facility of environmental background to open up new avenues of scholarly inquiry.
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Swift, and D. A. Ross, “Gas Venting and Late Quaternary Sedimentation in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf,” Marine Geology 129 (1996): 237–269; Michael Brookfield, “The Desertification of the Egyptian Sahara during the Holocene (the Last 10,000 Years) and Its Influence on the Rise of Egyptian Civilization,” in Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases, ed. I. Peter Martini and Ward Chesworth (Dordrecht: Springer, 2010), 91–108; Arie S. Issar, Water Shall Flow from the Rock: Hydrogeology and Climate in the Lands of the Bible (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1990); Thorkild Jacobsen and Robert M.
Rocks thus came to affect the history of the dam as much as the geopolitical concerns of the Cold War or ‘Abd al-Nasir’s domestic agenda. Water’s particular physical properties and manifestations also clearly shaped the contours of Middle Eastern history. How and in what amounts the region’s rivers flooded determined the well-being and life span of more people over the course of the MENA’s history than any imperial or national state or any economic development scheme. Thus only by MIDDLE EAST ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 15 attending to the historical import of actors like water, microbes, donkeys, and silt do the full complexities of the MENA’s pasts emerge.
McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), 123. 40. On the Suez Canal, see D. A. Farnie, East and West of Suez: The Suez Canal in History, 1854–1956 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969); John Marlowe, World Ditch: The Making of the Suez Canal (New York: Macmillan, 1964). On the Don-Volga Canal, see Halil İnalcık, “The Origins of the Ottoman-Russian Rivalry and the Don-Volga Canal 1569,” Les annales de l’Université d’Ankara 1 (1946–1947): 47–106; A.
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