KİTAP İNCELEMESİ: Alan Mikhail (2011), Nature and Empire in Otoman Egypt: An Environmental History, (NY: Cambridge University Press).

Recent debates on environmental problems and issues have raised awareness and environmental consciousness of Ottoman historians. They have started to use methodologies of environmental history and look at the past from an environmental viewpoint. One of the leading historians in the fledgling field of Ottoman environmental history is Alan Mikhail, whose dissertation has been recently revised and published under the title “Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History”.