Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental HistoryCambridge University Press, 11 Nis 2011 In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world. |
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Introduction Empire by Nature | 1 |
Watering the Earth | 38 |
The Food Chain | 82 |
The Framework of Empire | 124 |
In Working Order | 170 |
From Nature to Disease | 201 |
Another Nile | 242 |
Conclusion The Imagination and Reality of Public Works | 291 |
Appendix Citations for Cases Included in Tables 2 12 4 | 297 |
Bibliography | 305 |
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Ab¯u administration of Egypt agricultural Aj¯aib al-¯Ath¯ar akçe Al-Jabart¯ı al-Jus¯ur al-Sult.¯aniyya al-Nil Al¯ı Alexandria amount Anatolia Arabic archival ardabbs areas Ashrafiyya Canal Bedouin Cairo Cambridge Cevdet chapter construction court disease dredging Egyptian countryside Egyptian peasants embankments Empire’s environment environmental history example firman flood foodstuffs forests grain Greater Syria Hijaz human Ibid irrigation irrigation network Istanbul kise akçe labor land long eighteenth century Mah.kamat al-Bah.ayra Mah.kamat al-Mans.¯ura Mah.kamat Asy¯ut Mah.kamat Rash¯ıd 132 Mah.m¯udiyya Mahkamat Rashid 155 Mecca Mediterranean Mehmet Ali Mehmet Ali’s merchants Middle East Muh.ammad multazims natural resource Nile nineteenth century numbers Osmanlı Ottoman administration Ottoman bureaucracy Ottoman Egypt Ottoman Empire Ottoman imperial Ottoman Turkish period plague population province QJBM quarantine reconstruction rural Egypt ships state’s subprovince Suez sultan Suraiya Faroqhi Topkapı Palace transport TSMA University Press village wak¯ala waqf waterway waterwheels wood workers