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Resurrecting the granary of Rome : environmental history and French colonial expansion in North Africa / Diana K. Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Diana K.
- Series:
- Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Africa, North--History.
- Human ecology.
- Desertification--Africa, North.
- Desertification.
- Deforestation--Africa, North.
- Deforestation.
- Colonies.
- Economic policy.
- History.
- Environmental conditions.
- Africa, North--Environmental conditions.
- Africa, North.
- Africa, North--History--1517-1882.
- North Africa.
- Africa, North--History--1882-.
- France--Colonies--Africa--History.
- France.
- France--Colonies--Africa--Economic policy.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 296 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Tales of deforestation and desertification in North Africa have been told from the Roman period to the present. Such stories of environmental decline in the Maghreb are still recounted by experts and are widely accepted without question today.& Recent research in arid lands ecology and new paleoecological evidence, however, do not support many claims of deforestation, overgrazing, and desertification in this region. Diana K. Davis's pioneering analysis reveals the critical influence of French scientists and administrators who established much of the purported scientific basis of these stories during the colonial period in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, illustrating the key role of environmental narratives in imperial expansion.
- Contents:
- Imperial stories and empirical evidence
- Nature, empire, and narrative origins, 1830-48
- Idealism, capitalism, and the development of the narrative, 1848-70
- Triumph of the narrative, 1871-1918
- Narrative, science, policy, and practice, 1919 to independence
- Decolonization, the colonial narrative, and environmental policy today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821417515
- 0821417517
- 9780821417522
- 0821417525
- OCLC:
- 85162147
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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