Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
- ISBN-10
- 0199768668
- ISBN-13
- 9780199768660
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-10
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Alan Mikhail
Description
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.
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- 2012-11-09
- 352 pages
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