GE Vol.12 (1), 2019

Deserts in Environmental History

Imperial Deserts Andrew C. Isenberg, Katherine G. Morrissey, Louis S. Warren

Greeks and Romans in the Sahara Desert: Ideology and Experience Gary Reger

From the Divine to the Desertified: The Foundational Case of Deserts in the Middle East Diana K. Davis

‘A land of hardship and distress’: Camels, North American Deserts and the Limits of Conquest Andrew C. Isenberg

Global Imaginary of Arid Lands: Early Twentieth- Century United States Botanists in Africa Katherine G. Morrissey, Marcus A. Burtner

Deserts, Capital and ‘Civilisation’: The Politics of Environmental Naming in Eastern Morocco, 1925-1939Adam Guerin

Cultivating Arid Soils in Libya and Brazil during World War Two: The Two-fold War between Colonial and Neo-colonial Experiences Roberta Biasillo, Claiton Marcio da Silva

Two Dams in the Desert: An Environmental and Agricultural History of Water in Sonora, Mexico Sterling Evans

From Desiccation to Global Climate Change: A History of the Desertification Narrative in the West African Sahel, 1900-2018Tor A. Benjaminsen, Pierre Hiernaux

‘Fezzan is the Siberia of Africa’: Desert and Society in the Prison Memoir of Pavel Shatev (1882-1951), An Anarchist from Ottoman Macedonia Aleksandar Shopov