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Author:   Onur Inal ,  Yavuz Koese
Publisher:   White Horse Press
Imprint:   White Horse Press
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9781874267997

ISBN 10:   1874267995
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   15 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface ALAN MIKHAIL Introduction The Ottoman Environments Revisited ONUR INAL and YAVUZ KOESE PART I. CLIMATE AND LANDSCAPES Chapter 1. Searching for the `Little Ice Age' Effects in the Ottoman Greek Lands: The Cases of Salonica and Crete ELIAS KOLOVOS and PHOKION KOTZAGEORGIS Chapter 2. A `Magnificent' Climate: Demography, Land and Labour in Sixteenth-Century Anatolia MEHMET KURU Chapter 3. Producing Grapes and Wine on the Bosporus in the Eighteenth Century: The Testimony of Domenico Sestini SURAIYA FAROQHI PART II. RESOURCES AND ENERGIES Chapter 4. Fruits of Empire: Figs, Raisins, and Transformation of Western Anatolia in the Late Nineteenth Century ONUR INAL Chapter 5. `It's a Bad Fate to be Born Near a Forest': Forest, People and Buffaloes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century North-western Anatolia SEMIH CELIK Chapter 6. Water Management Issues in an Ottoman Province: The Case of Cyprus in the Seventeenth Century STYLIANI LEPIDA PART II. TECHNOLOGIES AND INFRASTRUCTURES Chapter 7. Nature's `Cosmopolitanism': Villagers, Engineers and Animals along Terkos Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul K. MEHMET KENTEL Chapter 8. Cesspools, Mosquitos and Fever: An Environmental History of Malaria Prevention in Isma'iliyya and Port Sa'id, 1869-1910 MOHAMED GAMAL-ELDIN PART IV. IDEAS AND ACTORS Chapter 9. The Rice Debates: Political Ecology in the Ottoman Parliament CHRIS GRATIEN Chapter 10. Discovering the Nature of the New Homeland: Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) in the Ottoman Empire and in Early Republican Turkey YAVUZ KOESE Chapter 11. Dispossession by Concession: Forest Commons in the Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic SELCUK DURSUN

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Onur Inal is the managing director of the TurkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ) of the University of Hamburg and founder of Network for the Environmental History of Turkey (NEHT). His research focuses on the urban and environmental histories of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. Yavuz Koese is Professor of Turcology at the University of Vienna, board member of TurkeiEuropaZentrum (TEZ), and president of the Society of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT). He researches the social, economic, and consumption history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Particularly, he is interested in the effects of modernisation and globalisation in the late Ottoman Empire.

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