Locusts of Power
Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-20035-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-20035-6 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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 is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Environment and History |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 495 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-20035-6 / 1009200356 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-20035-6 / 9781009200356 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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