Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (Ecology & History)
“Davis’s study has done more than any other previous work to place the Middle East on the agenda of environmental history. . . this pathbreaking book should be required reading for all those interested in the history of the Maghrib, environmental history, and the history of colonialism.”Alan Mikhail,International Journal of Middle East Studies“In carefully cataloging the troubling and troubled colonial past of North African ecology and ideas about that ecology, Diana Davis takes seriously the problem that history shapes both physical landscapes and the power-laden narratives through which we come to know them. A tremendous contribution!”Paul Robbins — author ofPolitical Ecology: A Critical Introduction“Diana K. Davis’s rich and compelling book not only challenges the declensionist narrative on the basis of empirical evidence, but it also explains how and why that narrative came to be constructed in the context of French colonial rule.... Davis makes a powerful argument for exposing the means by which colonized peoples were exploited in the name of environmental protection....”Caroline Ford—International History Review--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.