Samuel Dolbee (Tennessee Vanderbilt University)

Locusts of Power

Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Environment and History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781009200356
• ISBN-10: 1009200356
• Artikelnr.: 67567070

Autorenporträt

Samuel Dolbee is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.