Water on sand: environmental histories of the Middle East and North Africa

Introduction: Middle East environmental history: the fallow between two fields / Alan Mikhail

The eccentricity of the Middle East and North Africa's environmental history / J.R. McNeill

History and animal energy in the arid zone / Richard W. Bulliet

The Little Ice Age crisis of the Ottoman Empire: a conjuncture in Middle East environmental history / Sam White

Fish and fishermen in Ottoman Istanbul / Suraiya Faroqhi

Plague and environment in Late Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail

Through an ocean of sand: pastoralism and the equestrian culture of the Eurasian Steppe / Arash Khazeni

Enclosing nature in North Africa: national parks and the politics of environmental history / Diana K. Davis

Building the past: rockscapes and the Aswan High Dam in Egypt / Nancy Y. Reynolds

The rise and decline of environmentalism in Lebanon / Karim Makdisi

State of nature: the politics of water in the making of Saudi Arabia / Toby C. Jones

Expanding the Nile's watershed: the science and politics of land reclamation in Egypt / Jessica Barnes.