@article{840052,
      recid = {840052},
      author = {Mikhail, Alan,},
      title = {Nature and empire in Ottoman Egypt an environmental  history / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {xxv, 347 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"In the first ever environmental history of Ottoman Egypt,  Alan Mikhail brings to life the complex relationships  between Egyptians, their rural world along the Nile, and  the Ottoman Empire. This detailed account of irrigation,  grain cultivation, the movement of wood, disease, and labor  challenges many longstanding ideas in both Ottoman and  Egyptian history while at the same time demonstrating how  environmental history offers new ways of thinking about the  Middle East. This path braking book should be read by all  those with interests in the Middle East, the Ottoman  Empire, Egypt, environmental history, and early modern  history"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/840052},
}