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03284aam a22003974i 4500 001 E92C0950939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 160809s2017 ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016035740 020 $a 022642717X (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780226427171 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)956633756 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YAM $d ERASA $d YUS $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a aw----- $a a-tu--- $a aw----- 050 00 $a GF13.3 E3 M55 2017 100 1 $a Mikhail, Alan, $d 1979- $e author. 245 10 $a Under Osman's tree : $b the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and environmental history / $c Alan Mikhail. 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xiii, 336 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-325) and index. 505 00 $t Conclusion: empire as ecosystem. $t Introduction: the global environmental history of the Middle East -- $g Elemental. $t Irrigation works -- $t History from below -- $t Silt and empire -- $g Work. $t Rural muscle -- $t Expert measures -- $g Animal. $t Animal capital -- $t Brute force -- $g Elemental. $t Food and wood -- $t Plague ecologies -- $t Egypt, Iceland, SO2 -- $t Conclusion: empire as ecosystem. 520 8 $a Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam, and offers a telling clue to its unique legacy. Underlying every aspect of the Ottoman Empire's epic history - from its founding around 1300 to its end in the twentieth century - is its successful management of natural resources. Alan Mikhail analyzes this rich environmental history to understand the most remarkable qualities of the Ottoman Empire its longevity, politics, economy, and society. The early modern Middle East was the world's most crucial zone of connection and interaction. Accordingly, the Ottoman Empire's many varied environments affected and were affected by global trade, climate, and disease. From down in the mud of Egypt's canals to up in the treetops of Anatolia, Alan Mikhail tackles major aspects of the Middle East's environmental history: natural resource management, climate, human and animal labor, energy, water control, disease, and politics. He also points to some of the ways in which the region's dominant religious tradition, Islam, has understood and related to the natural world. Marrying environmental and Ottoman history, this is a bold new interpretation of the past five hundred years of Middle Eastern history. 650 0 $a Human ecology $z Egypt. 651 0 $a Egypt $x History $y 1517-1882. 651 0 $a Turkey $x History $y Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. 650 0 $a Human ecology $x History. 650 0 $a Human ecology $z Middle East. 648 7 $a 1288-1918 $2 fast 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092818.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214022753.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107013731.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E92C0950939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search