Books written by Alan Mikhail
-
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
Warde, Paul. Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Weber, Max. “Politics as a Vocation.” In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology.
-
Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
... Energy in World History; Smil, Energy in Nature and Society; Pyne, World Fire; Pyne, Vestal Fire; Paul Warde, Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Burke, ...
-
Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
The Dutch Rural Economy in the Golden Age, 1500–1700. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974. Dewald, Jonathan, Geoffrey Parker, Michael Marmé, and J.B. Shank. “AHR Forum: The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Revisited.
-
God's Shadow: The Untold Story of Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
An historical masterwork, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of a world we thought we knew.
-
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt
Take, for instance, the account of the British adventure traveler and hunter Samuel White Baker who published a book in 1868 concerned largely with his hunting of hippopotami and other animals in Egypt. He relates an incident in which ...
-
Gottes Schatten: Sultan Selim und die Geburt der modernen Welt
Alan Mikhail betrachtet in seinem meisterhaft erzählten Buch den Beginn der Neuzeit konsequent von diesem Reich und diesem Herrscher aus.
-
Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
Making environmental history accessible to scholars of the Middle East and the history of the region accessible to environmental historians, Water on Sand opens up new fields of scholarly inquiry.
-
Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
“Region of the Hauts Plateaux of Constantine. Forest in regression after fire and grazing. ... Given the ecology of the region, in which a majority of plants were highly adapted to drought, fire, and grazing, regenerating pastures and ...
-
God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World
An historical masterwork, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of a world we thought we knew.
-
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
29 It referred to a water source that was “permanent, and apparent to the eye, like the water of rivers, not water ... 1995), 127–37; William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster, People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East: Environments ...
-
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
This path braking book should be read by all those with interests in the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, environmental history, and early modern history"--
-
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
In the first ever environmental history of Ottoman Egypt, Alan Mikhail brings to life the complex relationships between Egyptians, their rural world along the Nile, and the Ottoman Empire. This...
-
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
With this “original and wide-ranging” (Wall Street Journal) global history, Alan Mikhail vitally recasts the Ottoman conquest of the world through the dramatic biography of Sultan Selim I (1470–1520).
-
God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World
An historical masterwork, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of a world we thought we knew.A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Yale University, ...