Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East

ISBN-13: 9781009200356 / Angielski

Samuel Dolbee

Opis

Samuel Dolbee explains political and environmental transformations in Middle East history from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War by tracing the movement of locusts and their relationship to people in motion and states in the Jazira, the borderlands region of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

Recenzje

'In this deeply empirical and eloquent book, Samuel Dolbee offers a history of a part of the Middle East that scholars have missed (or ignored)-the Jazira. Following Dolbee following locusts across this landscape opens up modes of political and environmental analyses that point the way for future studies.' Alan Mikhail, Yale University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Sultans of the open lands (1858–1890); 2. 'Savage swarms' (1890–1908); 3. 'Weren't we a lot like those creatures?' (1908–1918); 4. 'Like swarms of locusts' (1918–1939); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.