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Pastoralism and the Mediterranean Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2010

Edmund Burke III
Edmund Burke III*
Affiliation:
History Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, Calif.; e-mail: eburke@ucsc.edu
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Extract

The environmental history of the post-1500 Mediterranean (including the Middle East) has the potential to add significantly to our understanding of the history of the region. However, this is only if it is understood as a perspective (and not just a new specialization) that has the power to transform how we view familiar subjects. A ghettoized environmental history takes us nowhere nor do environmental histories that claim to explain everything. Let's take the role of pastoralism as one example of how an environmental perspective can reshape our understanding of the history of the modern Middle East.

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Roundtable
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , November 2010 , pp. 663 - 665
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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