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- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- ISBN
- 9781009200318
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1009200313
ISBN-13
9781009200318
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7057261041
Product Key Features
Book Title
Locusts of Power : Borders, Empire and Environment in the Modern Middle East
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Historical Geography, Agriculture / General
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Book Series
Studies in Environment and History Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2022-034262
Reviews
'It turns out that the locust can speak and Samuel Dolbee tells us how. Grounded firmly in the fertile intersection of Ottoman, post-Ottoman and environmental studies, this book demonstrates how human-pesticide relationships shaped the transformation of Ottoman Jazira: from 'dessert' to agricultural land; from a place for the sedenterization of nomads to one for the forced nomadization of sedentary populations for genocidal purposes, and how the same land then became parts of post-Ottoman Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. It will become a classic and deservedly so.' Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '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
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
634.97363
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts and revealing how they shaped both the environment and people's imaginations from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of archival research in multiple languages, Dolbee details environmental, political, and spatial transformations in the region's history by tracing the movements of locusts and their intimate relationship to people in motion, including Arab and Kurdish nomads, Armenian deportees, and Assyrian refugees, as well as states of the region. With locusts and moving people at center stage, surprising continuities and ruptures appear in the Jazira, the borderlands of today's Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Transcending approaches focused on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire or the creation of nation states, Dolbee provides a new perspective on the modern Middle East grounded in environmental change, state violence, and popular resistance., 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.
LC Classification Number
SB945.L7D65 2022
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