Book Review "AlanMikhail (ed), Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa"
Book Review "AlanMikhail (ed), Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa"
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书评“艾伦米哈伊尔（编），沙上的水：中东和北非的环境历史”
DOI：
10.1093/jis/etw003
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发表时间：
2016
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0.9
通讯作者：
Satoshi Abe
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山田亨;Toru Yamada;Toru Yamada;Toru Yamada;Toru Yamada;Toru Yamada;Toru Yamada;Toru Yamada;Satoshi Abe;Satoshi Abe
这本文集探索了中东和北非(MENA)的环境如何调节了人类、货物、动物和疾病的流动。它试图从经常被忽视的角度来看待中东历史，即环境方面的观点。它还努力通过审查整个中东和北非地区伊斯兰社会如何在各种背景和时代中采用环境限制并受到环境限制的描述，努力扩大全球环境历史方面的工作。为了达到这些目的，这本书特别关注人与环境之间的辩证关系：环境背景提供了一系列最初的可能性，人类在其中找到生存方式，发展文化传统，并相应地改变他们的环境，同时在人类和环境相互促进的连续循环中，反过来又被同样的环境潮流塑造和改变。这本书围绕三个主要主题进行组织，帮助读者认识到该地区内环境历史的关键观点：影响该地区历史进程的环境力量，258篇书评
This collection explores the ways in which the environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has conditioned the movements of humans, goods, animals, and diseases. It seeks to view Middle Eastern history from the perspectives that are often overlooked, namely environmental ones. It also strives to expand work within global environmental history by examining accounts of how Islamic societies across the MENA have adopted and been shaped by environmental constraints in a variety of contexts and eras. Attempting to achieve these ends, the volume particularly attends to the dialectical relationships between humans and environments: environmental contexts present an initial range of possibilities within which humans find ways to live, develop cultural traditions and accordingly alter their environment, while being in turn shaped and altered by those same environmental currents, within a continuous cycle to which both humans and environments mutually contribute. The volume is organized around the three major themes that help the reader recognize the crucial standpoints of environmental history within the region: environmental forces that impacted the course of the region’s history, the258 book reviews