Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

Name: Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
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ISBN: 9780821420409

ISBN-10: 0821420402

ISBN-13: 9780821420409

Edition: 2011

Authors: Diana K. Davis, Edmund Burke III, Edmund Burke III

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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 East and…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English