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The decline of Iranshahr : irrigation and environment in the Middle East, 500 B.C. - A.D. 1500 / Peter Christensen ;translated by Steven Sampson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christensen, Peter, 1947- author.
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irrigation--Middle East--History.
- Irrigation.
- Middle East--History.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Environmental conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Text in English, translated from Danish.
- Summary:
- "The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region went into a steady and prolonged decline: populations decreased, ancient cities decayed and nomadism spread at the expense of civilized culture. In this pioneering text Peter Christensen challenges this story of decline. Long out of print but now reissued with a new introduction by the author, this important work is both a foundational text in the environmental history of the Middle East and a pioneering reassessment of traditional ideas about the historical processes of Iran and the Middle East region."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Notes:
- Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781350988590
- 1350988596
- 9781838609368
- 1838609369
- OCLC:
- 1166565820
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