Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East

by Samuel Dolbee

Book Overview

In this highly original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts and revealing how they shaped both the environment and people's imaginations from the late Ottoman Empire to the Second World War. Drawing on a wide range of archival research in multiple languages, Dolbee details environmental, political, and spatial transformations in the region's history by tracing the movements of locusts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009200356
• ISBN13: 9781009200356
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"