The mountains are ours Ecology and settlement in late Ottoman and early Republican Cilicia, 1856-1956
[Thesis]
Christopher Gratien
Tucker, Judith
Georgetown University
2015
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Committee members: Agoston, Gabor; Aksakal, Mustafa
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-05793-4
Ph.D.
History
Georgetown University
2015
During its last century, the Ottoman Empire witnessed dramatic changes in settlement patterns due to migration, sedentarization, and the ascendance of commercial agriculture. Out of this process emerged new relationships between people and the environment, ecological questions of disease, land, and water management, and novel forms of social interaction. This dissertation examines that frontier ecology in Cilicia, a borderlands region of the Eastern Mediterranean situated at the historical juncture of Anatolia and Syria.
Middle Eastern history; Environmental Studies
Social sciences;Health and environmental sciences;Disease;Migration;Ottoman empire;Pastoralism;Syria;Turkey