Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resource…
"In the first ever environmental history of Ottoman Egypt, Alan Mikhail brings to life the complex relationships between Egyptians, their rural world along the Nile, and the Ottoman Empire. This detailed account of irrigation, grain cultivation, the movement of wood, disease, an…
"The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians -- most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes i…
